To browse Academia. The enantioselective oxidation of methyl elaidate E -1b to the chiral syn-dihy-droxyoctadecanoate S,S and its enantiomer with AD-mix-a and AD-mix Organogelation of edible oils using food-derived ceramides may represent a viable non-conventional strategy for structuring liquid oils into semisolid fats without the use of saturated or trans fats.
A large share of the vegetable oil market is today shifting from food to the energy sector. This trend led to discussions about the chance of confliction between these two chains and its possible social and environmental consequences. Moreover the increasing interest in pure vegetable oils for energy and biodiesel production are associated to a period of market volatilities and high prices.
The economics of the bio-diesel production is suffering the actual market situation. Aim of the project is the investigation of the use of waste oil streams and by-products from food industry to obtain an alternative feedstock for bioliquids and biofuels production.
In the current food market, a number of secondary streams are available from the food industry: oleins and fatty acids, sludge oils and WCO Waste Cooking Oils , represent several examples of these potential alternative feedstock. Most of these materials are characterized by high free fatty acid compositions. In the OVEST project, vegetable oil is obtained from waste materials by the re-esterification process, in order to obtain a new feedstock for biodiesel production and for power generation.
A market analysis has been carried out in OVEST, to estimate the economic viability and the potential of each waste streams. Test on a modified Micro Gas Turbine 30 kW el and in small scale co-generator 5 kW el have been carried out.
