Student Work

Reaction and Transport in Industrial-Scale Fixed Bed Transactelyzation of Glycerol

Public Deposited

Downloadable Content

open in viewer

The rise of biodiesel production has its downside in producing an abundance of glycerol as a by-product. The project examines the feasibility of converting glycerol to glycerol acetate, a much more valuable product, through transactelyzation of glycerol. The project utilized COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the process on Amberlyst -15 catalyst and in fixed bed reactor. The model evaluated all physical phenomena that may happen in industrial-scale process. The simulation allowed proposing design recommendation for the fixed bed reactor. The result shows that fixed bed reactor is feasible for processing transactelyzation of glycerol.

  • This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
Creator
Publisher
Identifier
  • E-project-042618-122615
Advisor
Year
  • 2018
Date created
  • 2018-04-26
Resource type
Major
Source
  • E-project-042618-122615
Rights statement
Last modified
  • 2024-05-13

Relations

In Collection:

Items

Items

Permanent link to this page: https://digital.wpi.edu/show/kd17cz269