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Title: CONVERSION OF BIOMASS UNDER HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST INTO LEVULINIC ESTERS

CONVERSION OF BIOMASS UNDER HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST INTO LEVULINIC ESTERS
E. E. Oprescu;C. E. Enascuta;G. Vasilievici;C. Calin;C. Popa;V. Lavric
1314-2704
English
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One of the most abundant renewable resources with a great potential as raw materials for production of fuels and bulk chemicals are carbohydrates derived from biomass. Among these, esters levulinates have been widely used as solvents and plasticizers in food industry or as fuels additives for transportation. The direct synthesis of methyl levulinate from fructose over solid superacid SO42?/TiO2-La2O3 catalyst was investigated in this study. The influence of different reaction parameters such as reaction temperature, reaction time and catalyst amount was studied. Synthesized compounds were analyzed by GC?MS/MS. Under the best condition the yield in levulinate esters reach the value of 87.52 %. The experimental data obtained were used to estimate the methyl levulinate yield applying multiple linear regressions and artificial neural networks. A comparison of the data obtained with the two methods showed that the artificial neural network is more suitable to estimate de yield. The results obtained from artificial neural networks were in good agreement with the experimental data indicating that artificial neural networks has a good potential in the methyl levulinate yield prediction.
conference
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019
19th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2019, 30 June - 6 July, 2019
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
Bulgarian Acad Sci; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Slovak Acad Sci; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; World Acad Sci; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Ac
107-114
30 June - 6 July, 2019
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cdrom
5819
fructose; methanol; methyl levulinate; superacid catalyst