Alternativa potencial para aproveitamento do glicerol gerado na produção de biodiesel: síntese enzimática de monolaurina por esterificação

Química Nova

Larissa Freitas¹  Julio C. Santos¹  Marcos V. Barcza¹  Heizir F. De Castro¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Escola de Engenharia de Lorena Lorena SP ,Brasil

关键词: glycerol;    lipase;    factorial design;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0100-40422009000900007

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Esterification reactions of glycerol with lauric acid in solvent free system were carried out using lipases from several sources. All lipases were immobilized on polysiloxane-polyvinyl alcohol particles by covalent binding with high activity recovered. Among the tested enzymes, the Candida antarctica lipase allowed to attain the highest molar conversion (76%), giving similar proportions of monolaurin, dilaurin and low amount of trilaurin. To further improve the process, the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used and optima temperature and molar ratio glycerol to lauric acid were found to be 45 ºC and 5:1, respectively. Under these conditions, 31.35% of monolaurin concentrations were attained and this result was in close agreement with the statistical model prediction.

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