Chapter 575: Supermarket Biodiesel Extraction Technology!
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After hearing the name of this energy technology, Li Fanyu was stunned. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
I learned the technology of biodiesel as early as my freshman year.
This technology is not new. In 1912, the founder of the engine, Dieter, pointed out in his report to the Missouri Engineering Conference that canola oil could be used as fuel for the engine, but this did not seem to make much sense at the time.
But as the world's oil resources are depleted, the extraction of fuel from biological plant fats is becoming more and more promising.
In the eighties of the last century, the United States first used rapeseed oil methyl grease for engine fuel, burning for 1000 hours. After that, the renewable fatty acid monolipid is defined as biodiesel.
This kind of technology feels quite lofty to say, but in fact, the principle is not difficult.
It is the process of using animal and vegetable oils and fats and methanol or ethanol to obtain fatty acid monoalkyl lipids after lipid reaction. The last thing extracted is the fatty acid methyl fat, which is known as biodiesel.
Compared with traditional petrochemical diesel, this biodiesel has the characteristics of low sulfur content, low aromatics, high flash ignition point, high cetane number, and good lubricity.
It can be used as a fuel to partially replace petrochemical diesel, or it can be blended and used together with petrochemical diesel.
But......
Although this technology has been in place since the 80s, after more than 30 years of scientific research and public relations, the technology of extracting fuel from fat is still not perfect.
The main production method is still carried out by chemical catalysts.
Take the chemical production method that Li Fanyu learned in college;
Bio-fats are mixed with low-carbon alcohols such as methanol or ethanol, and sodium hydroxide or sodium methane, which is 1% by weight of the fat, is used as a medium.
Under acidic or alkaline catalysts and high temperatures of 230-250 degrees Celsius, lipid exchange reactions are undergo to produce fatty acid methyl esters and ethyl esters.
The two substances are then separated, and the fatty acid methyl ester is washed and dried to obtain the finished product.
The whole production process is complex, and the demand for methanol, ethanol, media and catalysts is particularly high.
This means that the cost of this fuel is not low.
In order to fully decompose fat, methanol and ethanol are generally used in excess. Therefore, in the production process of biodiesel, methylethanol cannot be completely reacted, and a follow-up process of alcohol recovery is also required.
Sounds like a hassle, right?
But don't think that's the end of it!
Even if these difficulties are overcome, it does not mean that it is possible to refine qualified biodiesel from animal and vegetable fats.
In the process of chemical production, the water and free fatty acids in the oil raw materials will seriously affect the yield and quality of biodiesel, so the fatty acid methyl ester produced is not very stable.
When the temperature is too high, the fatty acids in the fat become unsaturated. In this case, biodiesel will also change color and deteriorate......
The purification of the product is complex, the ester is difficult to wave, the by-products generated by the reaction are difficult to remove, and the use of acid-base catalysts will also produce a large amount of wastewater, which makes the secondary pollution of this production method to the environment particularly serious......
Therefore, although this technology was developed by scientists in the mid-eighties and put into production, it has not been popularized.
Even in the context of the increasing depletion of energy, various countries have worked hard to study this kind of fuel that can replace diesel with rapeseed, soybean and corn, but they still have not been able to find a particularly good way, and there is a revolutionary breakthrough in the production process and extraction method.
Therefore, when Li Fanyu heard this familiar technology, he had a feeling of being pitted by the system.
This play should be regarded as black technology?
The most important thing is also worth 100 million?!
Just when he wanted to shout three times to return the money, what had just been forced into his brain by the system began to quickly combine with his thinking.
As soon as Li Fanyu shouted the word "retreat", he had a flash of inspiration, frowned and tilted his head.
"Shhh......hhh......h There could be another way to extract biodiesel from fat feedstocks?"
He shook his head, feeling that the method of refining biodiesel in his mind seemed to have a little new idea in some link.
Breakthrough.......
But how?
When I think about it, I feel that I don't have a clue.
A few chemical formulas come to mind, but they never form a coherent chain.
This feeling is like seeing a teacher who seems to have taught but doesn't know how to do algebra questions in the college entrance examination.
It looks familiar, but it lacks a breakthrough point and coherent thinking.
That is, the lack of the legendary, a kick in the door!
This kind of feeling of being at the doorstep and a new world behind the door has not been encountered for a long time since he stopped doing high math problems.
With this subtle feeling, he slowly sat cross-legged on the floor of the laboratory.
What Li Fanyu didn't know was that in his mind, those materials were being combined with his thinking at a high speed.
This feeling is like a sky full of bricks dancing out of thin air, building a high-rise building in no order.
It's like using a breakpoint download, downloading a ****** on the progress bar intermittently, and you can only watch a wonderful picture for two or three seconds.
All in all, it's just a peek, but you don't see the whole leopard!
In this process, Li Fanyu simply had a feeling of madness.
Before I knew it, two hours passed quietly.
After some brainstorming, the data that came with the brain waves has slowly and completely integrated with his thinking.
Suddenly, there seemed to be a soft sound of bili in his mind.
At this moment, as if it was the Big Bang, the consciousness that carries the technology of living beings turned into stars, forming a magnificent scene in Li Fanyu's mind!
It's like ***** download progress has gradually changed from 22% to 100%. The progress bar on the video player instantly becomes a straight line running through it.
Boom!
It's like thunder and fire.
A wonderful body like **** Mr. Ozawa, Mr. Takizawa, and Mr. Tianhai is presented in front of his eyes!
At this moment, in Li Fanyu's thinking, it seemed that it had gone through a long month, or a year.
He frantically absorbed these thoughts and quickly merged them with his own knowledge.
More than half an hour passed.
Finally, after he was trembling, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Chemical Synthesis of Biodiesel...... It's ...... Weak explosion!"
At this time, in his mind, there are already six ways to extract biodiesel!
Some of these methods are based on the existing scientific research results in this time and space, and the revolutionary thinking divergence is derived.
Some of them use methods and methods that do not exist in this space-time. According to the current research and development progress, even in another twenty years, scientists may not be able to understand it!
But at this time, Li Fanyu was already clear and thorough along the way.
Grab it!