2008
DOI: 10.1039/b715047d
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Biodiesel: a green polymerization solvent

Abstract: In an effort to use clean technologies, fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) produced from canola have been used as a polymerization solvent. Solution polymerizations of four commercially important monomers have been studied using FAME as a solvent. A series of methyl methacrylate (MMA), styrene (Sty), butyl acrylate (BA) and vinyl acetate (VAc) homopolymerizations in FAME were carried out at 60 • C at different solvent concentrations. Chain transfer to solvent rate constants were obtained using the Mayo method. Th… Show more

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“…The high solvent strength of biodiesel makes it attractive as a substitute for a number of conventional and harmful organic solvents (Hu et al 2004) in applications such as industrial cleaning and degreasing, resin cleaning, and removal (Wildes 2001(Wildes , 2002, plasticizers in the production of plastics (Wehlmann 1999), liquid-liquid extractions (Spear et al 2007), polymerization solvent (Salehpour and Dube 2008), and as a medium in site bioremediation of crude petroleum spills (Miller and Mudge 1997;Mudge and Pereira 1999;Glória Pereira and Mudge 2004;Fernandezalvarez et al 2006). The strong solvent properties of biodiesel are particularly noticeable in cases where diesel engines have been operated with petrodiesel for many years or miles, which results in build-up of insoluble deposits in fuel tanks and lines.…”
Section: Other Uses Of Biodieselmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The high solvent strength of biodiesel makes it attractive as a substitute for a number of conventional and harmful organic solvents (Hu et al 2004) in applications such as industrial cleaning and degreasing, resin cleaning, and removal (Wildes 2001(Wildes , 2002, plasticizers in the production of plastics (Wehlmann 1999), liquid-liquid extractions (Spear et al 2007), polymerization solvent (Salehpour and Dube 2008), and as a medium in site bioremediation of crude petroleum spills (Miller and Mudge 1997;Mudge and Pereira 1999;Glória Pereira and Mudge 2004;Fernandezalvarez et al 2006). The strong solvent properties of biodiesel are particularly noticeable in cases where diesel engines have been operated with petrodiesel for many years or miles, which results in build-up of insoluble deposits in fuel tanks and lines.…”
Section: Other Uses Of Biodieselmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These areas can be assimilated to the domain of existence of microemulsions. 64 The use of limonene gives a phase diagram with two domains of existence of microemulsions, L1 and L2, as in the case where n-hexane or n-heptane are used, see Fig. 3.…”
Section: Methods and Techniquesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As early as in the 1960s, cuphea, with its vast diversity of fatty acids, 56,57 was proposed as a source of fatty acids with medium chain lengths. 58 In recent years, biodiesel has gained importance in a great number of research and industrial processes, for example as green solvents, [59][60][61] in cleaning and degreasing agents 62 or cleaning up of oil spills, 63 as polymerization solvents, 64 in pesticides 43,46,65 or as an alternative to organic solvents in liquid-liquid extractions 66 and last but not least as biofuels. Biodiesel based microemulsions have already been made and tested 41 and the produced bicontinuous microemulsion-fuels are effective fuels with low emissions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In coating systems, the solvent gets evaporated in an environment that is responsible for causing the health hazards, environmental pollution, VOC, and contributing to global warming [25] have focused on replacing such kind of petro-solvent by dipentene as a green-solvent. As on today the most commonly used green solvents in the field of polymer chemistry are water, supercritical carbon dioxide, and ionic liquids [26,27]. Dipentene (limonene) a green solvent used in the present invention is generally obtained from citrus waste [28].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%