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Paredes, D., Bulnes, K. (2023). Desarrollo de una estación automatizada de decantación de biodiesel para la optimización del tiempo de decantado, aplicando campo eléctrico y control de temperatura para el laboratorio de energías renovables de la UNALM [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667844
Paredes, D., Bulnes, K. Desarrollo de una estación automatizada de decantación de biodiesel para la optimización del tiempo de decantado, aplicando campo eléctrico y control de temperatura para el laboratorio de energías renovables de la UNALM [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/667844
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title = "Desarrollo de una estación automatizada de decantación de biodiesel para la optimización del tiempo de decantado, aplicando campo eléctrico y control de temperatura para el laboratorio de energías renovables de la UNALM",
author = "Bulnes Garcia, Kevin Christian",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2023"
}
In Peru, the Ministry of the Environment (2019) indicates that of the total waste generated in cities, 54% is organic and can be reused. One of the most common types of waste is burnt cooking oil, which can be recycled as an input to obtain biodiesel as a replacement for diesel of fossil origin. Biodiesel substantially reduces the amount of polluting emissions and is also a viable solution to take advantage of burned cooking oil. However, diesel consumption has increased in recent years due to its low economic cost, which makes it difficult to replace it with biofuels. Therefore, to promote the use of Biodiesel, it is necessary to lower production costs and thus make the product competitive against its polluting counterpart. Indeed, the UNALM Renewable Energy Laboratory is in charge of studying the methods proposed by research around the world in order to find a process that allows biodiesel to be produced in a viable way, reducing economic and environmental costs according to the reality of the country. In the studies, it was identified that a factor that influences the increase in cost is the time it takes to produce a batch of biodiesel since, only in the decantation stage, it takes from 8 to 24 hours to separate the final product from impurities. The decantation process is the one that takes the longest and is also the least studied in relation to biodiesel. In this way, the objective of the project is to develop an automated Biodiesel decanting system using the electrocoagulation technique by electric fields in order to optimize the production time online without affecting the quality of the product, according to the parameters of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) for the research laboratory.
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