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Experimental data of the distillation of bio-oil

from thermal cracking of methyl ester in castor
oil
Guilherme Menshhein a, Vanderlei Costa a,
Luana M. Chiarello a, Dilamara R. Scharf a,
Edesio L. Simionato b, Vanderleia Botton a, *, Henry F. Meier a,
Vinicyus R. Wiggers a, Lae
rcio Ender a
a
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Blumenau, Blumenau, SC, Brazil
b
Chemistry Department, University of Blumenau, Blumenau, SC, Brazil

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: This article presents the experimental data on distillation of bio-oil
Received 7 June 2019 obtained from thermal cracking of a mixture of castor oil and its
Received in revised form 16 July 2019 methyl esters. The interpretation of the data can be found in
Accepted 19 July 2019
Menshhein et al. (2019) available on https://doi.org/10.1016/
Available online 27 July 2019
j.renene.2019.04.136. Experiments were carried out using a simple
distillation apparatus and the products were quantified and qual-
Keywords:
ified from Gas Chromatography e Flame Ionization Detector (GC-
Distillation
Gas chromatographic analyses FID) with standards compounds. Data were presented in terms of
Bio-oil distillation equipment and distillation curve values of volume and
temperature of the crude bio-oil sample. Information about GC-FID
methods and chromatograms of from standard heptaldehyde and
methyl undecenoate and their analytical curve. Carbon number
data of crude bio-oil sample was also showed.
© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open
access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.
org/licenses/by/4.0/).

* Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: guilherme.menshhein@gmail.com (G. Menshhein), vanderleircosta@gmail.com (V. Costa), lchiarello@furb.
br (L.M. Chiarello), driva@furb.br (D.R. Scharf), edesio@furb.br (E.L. Simionato), vanderleiabotton@furb.br (V. Botton), meier@
furb.br (H.F. Meier), vwiggers@furb.br (V.R. Wiggers), ender@furb.br (L. Ender).

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Subject area Thermal cracking (pyrolysis) of triglycerides

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Bio-oil distillation
Figures and tables
Experiments, physicochemical and chromatographic analysis (distiller: B/R Instrument, model
M690, GC-FID: 7890B/Agilent and 2010/Shimadzu)
Raw and tabulated data collection
Volumetric data from distillation curve of thermal cracking fraction and chromatographic data
Distillation cuts of bio-oil from thermal cracking of methyl ester in castor oil
Blumenau/SC e Brazil, University of Blumenau e FURB
Chemical Engineering Department
Data is with this article
Menshhein et al., Concentration of Renewable Products of Crude Bio-Oil from Thermal Cracking
of the Methyl Esters in Castor Oil [1].

Value of the data

The data provides details from noncomplex distillation equipment and the distillation curve of the bio-oil from thermal
cracking of methyl ester in castor oil, which will enable comparison of results;

This data provides a GC-FID chromatogram and data from crude bio-oil presenting the different carbon range of this
sample;

Information regarding GC-FID chromatograms detailing the analytical curves of heptaldehyde and methyl undecenoate
standards.

1. Data

Fig. 1 presented the distillation equipment design. Table 1 shows the distillation curve values of
volume and temperature of the crude bio-oil sample. Table 2 presents the gas chromatography
methods used in this work. In Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and Table 3 are the observed chromatograms of GC-FID from
standard heptaldehyde and methyl undecenoate and their analytical curve as graphic and table,

Fig. 1. Distillation equipment design: 1) distillation apparatus 2) pump and 3) thermostatic bath.
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Table 1
Distillation curve data of the crude bio-oil sample.

Temperature ( C) Distilled volume (%)

120.4 ± 4.3 0
144.0 ± 6.0 5
207.5 ± 5.4 15
216.6 ± 1.7 20
219.7 ± 1.2 25
221.5 ± 1.2 30
225.4 ± 5.8 40
235.3 ± 1.4 45
275.5 ± 3.9 50
297.9 ± 1.9 55
307.9 ± 7.3 60
314.6 ± 3.5 65
327.5 ± 7.9 70
348.6 ± 3.2 75
367.6 ± 4.3 80
378.1 ± 5.6 84
398.2 ± 7.9 85
412.3 ± 6.2 86
424.9 ± 1.2 87
439.2 ± 6.5 88

Table 2
Gas chromatography with flame ionization detector methods.

Description Analyses Column Carrier gas Oven Heating method Injector/

Detector
T ( C)

GC-2010 Carbon OV-5 capillary column Helium Initially 150  C (for 1 min), increasing 250/280
Shimadzu number (30 m  0.25 mm x 0.25 mm) to 280  C at a ramp of 5  C min1.
The T was kept at 280  C for 23 min.
Standard Heptaldehyde Methyl undecenoate
Purity (%) 92 96
Supplier Sigma-Aldrich Sigma-Aldrich
7890B Agilent Desired Stabilwax capillary column Helium Initially 50  C (for 3 min), increasing to 250/300
compounds (30 m  0.25 mm x 0.25 mm) 250  C at a ramp of 5  C min1. The T
was kept at 250  C for 7 min.
Standard C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19
Purity (%) 98.0 99.0 99.8 99.8 99.8 99.5 99.5 99.8 99.8 99.8 99.8 99.0
Supplier S-Aa Vb Fc F F F F F F F F S-A
a
S-A ¼ Sigma-Aldrich.
b
V ¼ Vetec.
c
F ¼ Fluka.

respectively. Fig. 4 illustrates the chromatogram of carbon number of crude bio-oil sample. Table 4
presents the carbon number data for the crude bio-oil sample.

2. Experimental design, materials and methods

2.1. Materials

Experiments were carried out with bio-oil produced by Botton et al. [2] from thermal cracking of
methyl ester in castor oil at 475e525  C with residence time of 44e104 s.
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Fig. 2. Chromatograms of GC-FID from standard of (a) heptaldehyde and (b) methyl undecenoate with concentration of these
compounds varying from 0.46 to 48%.

Fig. 3. Analytical curve of heptaldehyde and methyl undecenoate, with R2 of 0.9962 and 0.9967, respectively.
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Table 3
Data from analytical curve of heptaldehyde and methyl undecenoate.

Concentration (%) Area (AU)

Heptaldehyde Methyl undecenoate

0.46 185.2 e
0.48 e 272.5
0.92 286.3 e
0.96 e 492.1
7.36 2651.9 e
7.68 e 3789.8
18.4 6584.1 e
19.2 e 9906.2
27.6 11476.4 e
28.8 e 15029
32.2 12825.6 e
33.6 e 16298.2
46.0 17647.2 e
48.0 e 22780.7

Fig. 4. Carbon number chromatograms of crude bio-oil sample.

2.2. Distillation curve

Experiments were performed in an automatic vacuum distiller as illustrated in Fig. 1 (B/R Instru-
ment, model M690) [3,4], based on the standards for petroleum characterization [5,6]. The data ob-
tained in this analysis is show in Table 1.
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Table 4
Carbon number range for the crude bio-oil sample.

Carbon Range Crude bio-oil (%)

Below C9 14.79 ± 0.65

C9 to C10 41.16 ± 1.37
C10 to C11 5.31 ± 0.17
C11 to C12 3.87 ± 0.06
C12 to C13 2.07 ± 0.11
C13 to C14 2.16 ± 0.05
C14 to C15 12.65 ± 0.27
C15 to C16 1.09 ± 0.02
C16 to C17 1.50 ± 0.04
C17 to C18 3.65 ± 0.13
C18 to C19 0.79 ± 0.04
Above C19 11.13 ± 1.17

2.3. GC-FID analyses

All these analyses were performed in triplicate (Table 2). The desired compounds - heptaldehyde
and methyl undecenoate - were analyzed by GC-FID using an Agilent GC-FID, model 7890B (Agilent
Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, EUA) (Figs. 2 and 3 and Table 3). The carbon number of bio-oil samples
were analyzed using a Shimadzu GC-FID, according to Beims et al. [3] by n-alkane comparison (Fig. 4
and Table 4).

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the reviewers, to the University of Blumenau (FURB) for the support
through the Institutional Program of Fellowships of Scientific Initiation 2015/2016 PIBIC-FURB-CNPq Nº
574/2015; Chemical Engineering Department of FURB (DEQ) and the National Petroleum, Natural Gas
and Biofuels Agency (ANP). This study was financed in part by the Coordenaça ~o de Aperfeiçoamento de
Pessoal de Nível Superior e Brasil (CAPES) e Finance Code 001.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relation-
ships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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