Patricia Bogalhos Lucente Fregolente

TL;DR: In this paper, the water absorbance of biodiesel and biodiesel-diesel fuel blends evaluating the temperature and blend ratio parameters was determined through experiments and experiments were conducted to determine the water absorption.

TL;DR: In this work, monoglycerides (MG) and diglycerides (DG) are produced through lipase-catalyzed glycerolysis of soybean oil using Candida antarctica B in a solvent-free system to preserve the stability of the components and to keep the products free of inappropriate solvents.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of operating conditions on the monoglycerides concentration using molecular distillation (MD) process in laboratory scale was investigated using one-factor-at-a-time experiments and factorial design.

TL;DR: Five lipases were screened to study their ability to produce monoglycerides and diglycerides through enzymatic glycerolysis of soybean oil and found the best DG and MG productions were in the range 45–48% and 28–30% (w/w, based on the total oil), respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, hydrophilic hydrogels were employed to remove the water content in biodiesel and diesel fuel samples, starting with samples that had 2160 ppm and 240 ppm of water, respectively.