ESTUDO DA PRODUÇÃO DE BIODIESEL A PARTIR DE RESÍDUOS DE ÓLEOS DE SOJA, PEQUI E BABAÇU

Abstract

In view of the progress of the energy mix in a sustainable, social, economic and environmental, that since the 1970 are sought alternative solutions to the petroleum consumer, and also the concern about environmental pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases from the burning of oil products, increasingly strengthen the importance of commercial production of biofuels. The Biodiesel is one of these new energy sources, in addition to renewable and less polluting than fossil fuel, when produced from plant sources. Among the various possible raw materials for biofuel production, this paper proposes the production of biodiesel from waste of pequi peel, and oils of babaçu, pequi and soybeans. The process adopted for the production of biodiesel transesterification process has to be simpler and more widely used. The analysis of the obtained products were made by middle infrared spectroscopy using the Attenuated Total Reflectance attachment Universal (UATR), was observed the band characteristic of esters in the region 1730 cm-1, as Biodiesel is mainly characterized in that a mixture of this compound.