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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Química (FEQ) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Leonardo Vasconcelos Fregolente in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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This work proposes the development of separation processes that apply synthetic hydrogels grafted with Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNC) to remove water from biodiesel and biodiesel/diesel mixtures. In addition to the engineering of materials applied to obtain highly hydrophilic and macroporous hydrogels with adequate mechanical properties, additive manufacturing will be applied to produce dif…
Liquid fuels such as Aviation Kerosene, Diesel and Biodiesel may incorporate water during their production, transportation or storage. In case of fossil fuels, a considerable part of the water content comes from fractions produced directly from distillation towers, where steam is added for product rectification. Considering biodiesel, as it is basically composed by methyl or ethyl esters …
The growing increase in the biodiesel content in commercial diesel on a world scale, combined with the hydrophilicity characteristic of biodiesel due to its fatty acid ester structure, makes the concern about the quality of the final product with regard to the water content very relevant. Biodiesel is capable of absorbing up to 15 times more water than diesel at the same temperature. As a…
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