Mg/Al hydrotalcite catalyst for biodiesel production in continuous packed bed reactors

Abstract The performances of a commercial Mg/Al hydrotalcite (Pural© MG76) in biodiesel production have been tested in an autoclave and in a continuous packed bed reactor. The obtained results have shown that calcined Mg/Al hydrotalcite (Pural© MG76) is a promising heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production because is sufficiently active, deactivates slowly and can easily be regenerated.

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