Published
2024-04-18

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Torres Ortega, J. A., & Sánchez Castellanos, F. J. (2024). Physicochemical properties of the liquid mixture between stearate methyl / acid methyl sulfur stearate. Publicaciones E Investigación, 2(2), 99-120. https://doi.org/10.22490/25394088.562
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Physicochemical properties of the liquid mixture between stearate methyl / acid methyl sulfur stearate

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/25394088.562
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Estudio de casos
Jesús Alfonso Torres Ortega Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá
Francisco Joée Sánchez Castellanos Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá

The need of new alternatives for advance of the domestic oil-chemical industry, based local natural resources, make use of palm oil (Elaeis guineensis), as a source for obtaining alkyl esters, an excellent alternative development to be explored initially by the research groups at universities or institutions of scientifc innovation and development. The sulfonation process for the manufacture of surfactant were conducted in a falling flm reactor by the absorption and chemical reaction with SO3 gas on methyl esters derived from hydrogenated palm stearin. Identifying the properties of the reactants, products, and its mix is very important for the characterized by gas chromatography and infrared spectroscopy. It presents the properties of these inputs as a result of a series of experiments, which varies the mole ratio of the mixture of reactants and products, the process temperature and the percentage of sulfonate agent in the gas fow.