Desenvolvimento de usina de produção de biodiesel a partir de óleo de fritura usando simuladores de processo: aspectos operacionais e ambientais

Abstract

Waste cooking oil is a residue widely produced around the world. However, only a few developed countries have policies of environmental correct disposal of this waste, which makes it a potential pollutant in less enlightened nations about the environmental issues. Therefore, this work aims to present a technology for producing biodiesel from waste cooking oil as a form of energy recovery, combined with an environmentally correct disposal for this waste. The work begins with a basic review of the state of the art in biodiesel production. Then, it presents a proposition of a chemical process to produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil and finally has a discussion of the technology the way it was inserted in the computing environment used for its elaboration. Besides the presentation of the technology itself, an environmental assessment of the process is performed to measure the ability of the proposed biodiesel production process to reduce the impact caused by the waste cooking oil in the environment.