Cláudia Jéssica Cavalcanti

TL;DR: RS procedure provided promising results showing that it is possible to transfer gasoline or D/B blend spectra acquired with a high-resolution benchtop instrument to the handheld MicroNIR using virtual standards as transfer samples.

TL;DR: In this paper , a model for the hydrotreatment of soybean oil for the production of green diesel was proposed, in which the decarboxylation, decarbonylation and hydrodeoxygenation reactions were carried out in a stoichiometric reactor in the presence of an NiMo/Al2O3 catalyst.

TL;DR: In this paper, the liquid-liquid extraction of free fatty acids (FFA) from residual oils and fats for biodiesel production, employing methanol as the solvent, has been optimized using process simulation and response surface methodology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ethanol fuel dehydration process was optimized using the Aspen Plus® simulator and a multivariate statistical technique based on the desirability function, which was able to improve the process performance with little or no modification of existing processing plants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used factorial designs to evaluate changes in the operating conditions of a three-phase separator and found that the best operating condition occurs with the temperature at 30oC and the pressure at 9 bar.