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Critical aggregates concentration of fatty esters present in biodiesel determined by turbidity and fluorescence.
Froehner, Sandro; Sánez, Juan; Dombroski, Luiz Fernando; Gracioto, Maria Paula.
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  • Froehner S; Department of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, PR, 81531-980, Brazil. froehner@ufpr.br.
  • Sánez J; Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, PR, 81531-980, Brazil.
  • Dombroski LF; Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, PR, 81531-980, Brazil.
  • Gracioto MP; Graduate Program in Oceanography, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-900, Brazil.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int ; 24(25): 20747-20758, 2017 Sep.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28718020
Biodiesel for combustible engine is available as mixture of fossil diesel and fatty esters obtained by transesterification of vegetable oils. The use of biodiesel reduces the amount of SOx, mainly. However, it was already observed that biodiesel has a different behavior in environment in cases of accidental spill and groundwater contamination. It was noticed that the biodegradation of hydrocarbons (cyclic and aliphatic) in the presence of biodiesel are speeded, although the mechanism is still unclear. Considering the chemical structure of fatty esters, it was investigated the formation of aggregates in water solution by fatty esters present in commercial biodiesel. In Brazil, biodiesel is composed by 95% of fossil diesel and 5% of fatty esters mixture. In this work, fatty esters were treated as neutral surfactant, i.e., it was treated as a molecule with polar and non-polar part. Turbidity and fluorescence were used to determine the critical aggregates concentration (CAC). Water solutions containing fatty esters were examined exploiting changes in turbidity and fluorescence intensity of pyrene. Abrupt changes were attributed to aggregates formation, following the same behavior of traditional amphiphilic compounds. It was determined the CAC for ethyl palmitate, ethyl stearate, ethyl oleate, and ethyl linoleate. The values of CAC for fatty esters varied from 1.91 to 4.27 µmol/L, while CAC for the mixture of esters (biodiesel) was 2.01 for methyl esters and 1.19 for ethyl esters, both prepared using soybean oil. The aggregates formation was also determined by fluorescence measurements considering the changes in intensity of peaks I and III of pyrene. Pyrene senses the changes in environment polarity. The values found of CAC by fluorescence for individual ethyl esters varied from 1.85 to 3.21 µmol/L, while mixtures of ethyl esters was 2.23 and 2.07 µmol/L for mixture of methyl esters. The results clearly showed that fatty esters form aggregates and might be responsible for speed degradation of compounds by accommodation of them in inner part of aggregates.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ésteres / Ácidos Graxos / Biocombustíveis País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Assunto da revista: SAUDE AMBIENTAL / TOXICOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Alemanha

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ésteres / Ácidos Graxos / Biocombustíveis País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Assunto da revista: SAUDE AMBIENTAL / TOXICOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2017 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Alemanha