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Green Chemistry

Synthesis of fatty acid methyl estersvia direct transesterification with methanol/carbon dioxide mixtures from spent coffee grounds feedstock

Filipe Calixto,a   João Fernandes,a   Ricardo Couto,a   Elvis J. Hernández,b   Vesna Najdanovic-Visaka  and  Pedro C. Simões*a  

* Corresponding authors

a REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
E-mail: pcs@dq.fct.unl.pt
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b Sección Departamental de Ciencias de la Alimentación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

The feasibility of in situextraction and transesterification of spent coffee ground oil into fatty acid methyl esters with supercritical methanol has been investigated in the temperature range 473–603 K, and in the pressure range 10.0–30.0 MPa. At 30.0 MPa and 603 K, a fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) yield of 84.9% was obtained. Carbon dioxide was added to methanol with the aim of reducing the operating temperature and pressure. It was demonstrated that at a reaction temperature of 573 K, pressure of 10.0 MPa and a CO2/MeOH molar ratio of 0.11, a FAME yield of 93.4% was obtained.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1GC15101K
Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Jan 2011
Accepted
01 Mar 2011
First published
01 Apr 2011

Green Chem., 2011,13, 1196-1202

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Synthesis of fatty acid methyl estersvia direct transesterification with methanol/carbon dioxide mixtures from spent coffee grounds feedstock

F. Calixto, J. Fernandes, R. Couto, E. J. Hernández, V. Najdanovic-Visak and P. C. Simões, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1196 DOI: 10.1039/C1GC15101K

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