Biofuel by isomerizing metathesis of rapeseed oil esters with (bio)ethylene for use in contemporary diesel engines

A biofuel that fulfills the petrodiesel engine standard EN 590 was generated from rapeseed oil methyl ester and (bio)ethylene. Rapeseed oil methyl ester (RME) and (bio)ethylene are converted into biofuel with an evenly rising boiling point curve, which fulfills the strict boiling specifications prescribed by the fuel standard EN 590 for modern (petro)diesel engines. Catalyzed by a Pd/Ru system, RME undergoes isomerizing metathesis in a stream of ethylene gas, leading to a defined olefin, monoester, and diester blend. This innovative refining concept requires negligible energy input (60°C) and no solvents and does not produce waste. It demonstrates that the pressing challenge of increasing the fraction of renewables in engine fuel may be addressed purely chemically rather than by motor engineering.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Science Advances

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/sciadv.1602624PMID 28630908PMCID 5473673
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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