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Research Article - (2016) Volume 7, Issue 2

Assessing the Activity of Solid-Suported SnCl2 Catalysts on the Oleic Acid Esterification for Biodiesel Production

Márcio José Da Silva* and Abiney Lemos Cardoso
Chemistry Department, Federal University of Vicosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, E-mail: silvamj2003@ufv.br
*Corresponding Author: Márcio José Da Silva, Chemistry Department, Federal University of Vicosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais State, Brazil Email:

Abstract

The search for cleaner methodologies has forcing the chemical industry to seek environmentally benign acid catalysts. SnCl2.2H2O is an affordable commercially Lewis acid, water tolerant and easy to handling, cheaper, and less corrosive. Recently, we have demonstrated that it is an efficient catalyst to produce biodiesel in homogeneous catalysis conditions. In this work, we have supported SnCl2.2H2O over different solid matrix (i.e., such as SiO2, Nb2O5 and ZrO2) and evaluated its catalytic activity in FFA esterification reactions. In this case, the reaction occurs in heterogeneous phase bringing with itself all the pertinent advantages to this rational system as the best separation of products and reuse of the catalyst. It was appraised reaction parameters such as thermal treatment temperature nature of the support; leaching test was also accomplished.

Keywords: Esterification; Tin chloride; Free fatty acids; Heterogeneous catalysis

Introduction

The exhaustion of the fossil petrol reserves, in combination with the environmental impact generated by the green-house effect gas emission has stimulated the search by alternative and renewable feedstock for energy production [1]. Besides this crescent demand, the industry chemistry and academy in all parts of world are developing environment friendly technologies for the production of alternative fuels [2]. Nowadays, the biodiesel is a “green” alternative fuel that has arisen as an attractive option, mainly because it’s less pollutant than fossil diesel and can be obtained from renewable sources. Currently, the biodiesel is manufactured from alkaline transesterification of edible or non-edible vegetable oils via a well-established industrial process [3,4]. However, there are serious drawbacks related to its conventional production process, such as a greater generation of effluents and salts from neutralization steps of the products and wastes, the use of nonrecyclable catalysts and the incompatibility with acid raw material with high amount of FFA [4,5]. These important features have hardly affected the final cost to biodiesel production [6].

An interesting alternative for lower biodiesel price is produce it directly from low cost lipidic raw materials are normally rich in FFA [7]. It should be mentioned that even though traditional mineral acids are an inexpensive catalysts able to those processes, they are equally corrosive, are not reusable and results in a large generation of acid effluents which should be neutralized at the end of the reaction, leaving greater amount of salts to be disposed of into environment [7,8]. Therefore, to develop recyclable alternative catalysts for FFA esterification reactions presents in low cost feedstokes and food industry rejects can be an option strategically important, and undoubtedly can produce biodiesel at more competitive cost via a cleaner technology [9]. Recently, several works have been described the development of heterogeneous catalysts based on acids solids that appear to offer a good perspective to make the biodiesel production more environment friendly [10,11]. Nevertheless, serious technological drawbacks such as drastic conditions reaction, the rigorous control of raw material quality in relation to water content, beyond of the leaching catalyst provoked by presence of alcohol seems suggest that those process yet are hard to control.

Alternatively, to develop catalysts for the direct conversion into biodiesel of lipid wastes basically constituted of FFA, or yet for the pre-esterification of raw materials that have high acidity seem be also a challenge to be overcome [12]. Nowadays, the majority of the catalysts conventionally used in the FFA esterification reactions are Brønsted acids. However, features such the higher corrosive character besides greater generation of residues and salts compromises the use of these traditional catalysts [13]. Lewis acids can be interesting alternative catalysts for biodiesel production. However, their high cost, the manipulation difficult and the intolerance to water of compounds traditionally used such as BF3 and others common reagents of organic synthesis, also does not favor the use of these latters in FFA esterification at industrial scale [14].

Particularly, we have concentrating efforts in developing an alternative esterification processes based on tin chloride, an simple, easily handling, water tolerant and inexpensive Lewis acid [15,16]. On the other hand, the SnCl2 is also most attractive, because it is are commercially available and easy to handle [17]. Moreover, its display remarkably low toxicity, is tolerant to water, economically cost effective, and can be used in recyclable processes [18]. Although Sn(II) catalysts have been used in homogeneous phase, they are though less corrosive than mineral acids [19]. In this work, the application of solid supported SnCl2 catalysts on FFA esterification is described. Our intention was assess if supported tin(II) catalysts can be potentially used on direct conversion of FFA into biodiesel via ethanol esterification reactions. The reusability, the less corrosion, the mild condition reactions and the compatibility with ethanol, which is also a renewable raw material, comprise positive aspects of this process. Moreover, the stability and possibility of reuse of supported Sn(II) catalysts were investigate.

Materials and Methods

Chemicals

All chemicals were purchased from commercial sources and used as received unless otherwise stated. Ethanol was acquired from Sigma- Aldrich (99.9% wt.). The tin(II) chloride dihydrate (SnCl2.2H2O; 99.5% wt.), niobium(V) oxide (Nb2O5), silicon(IV) oxide (SiO2) and zirconium(IV) oxychloride octahydrate (ZrOCl2 8H2O) were purchased from Sigma Aldrich. Oleic acid (99% wt.) was obtained from Modern Chemistry (São Paulo, SP, Brazil).

Synthesis of supported tin(II) catalysts

The supported tin catalysts were prepared by impregnation method. SnCl2 2H2O alcoholic solutions were prepared using 10 ml of solution per gram of supported catalyst to obtain a concentration of SnCl2 10, 30 and 50% w/w. The support (SiO2, Nb2O5 or ZrO2) was added to the solution resulting in a suspension. The suspension was kept under constant stirring and evaporated at 80 degrees until complete dryness. Then the solid obtained was pulverized and dried at 100 degrees in an oven for 3 hours. The supported tin samples were divided into two portions and each was thermally treated at 200 or 300 degrees for 4 h.

Catalytic runs

Catalytic tests were conducted in a 50 mL three-necked glass flask, equipped with sampling system, a reflux condenser, in thermostatic bath and under magnetic stirrer. In all runs, ethanol was used in large excess for to shift the equilibrium towards the esters formation. In a typical experiment, oleic acid (ca. 1.00 mmol) was dissolved in 7 ml (ca.155.0 mmol) of ethanol, which were heated to the reflux temperature. After the addition of catalyst (ca. 50.0 mg) the reaction was started.

Reaction monitoring and identification of products reaction

The reaction progress was continuously monitored taking aliquots at regular intervals of 30 min and analyzing them via gas chromatography. The temperature program was as follows: 150°C for 1 min, 10°C/min up to 240°C, hold time of 5 min. Both injector and FID detector were kept at 250 and 280°C, respectively. The GC was fitted with a DB5 capillary column (0.25 μm × 0.25 mm × 30 m) and reaction yields were calculated by matching the areas of the esters GC peaks into the corresponding calibration curves. Analyses were carried out in a Shimadzu GC gas chromatograph coupled with a MS-QP 2010A mass spectrometer (Tokyo, Japan), fitted with a DB5 capillary column (0.25 μm × 0.25 mm × 30 m), with helium as the carrier gas at 2 mL/min. The temperature program was as follows: 150°C for 1 min, 10°C/min up to 250°C, hold time of 5 min. The GC injector and MS ion source temperatures were kept at 250 and 260°C, respectively. The MS detector was operated in the EI mode at 70 eV, with a scanning range of m/z 50-400.

Recovery and reuse of heterogeneous catalysts

After reaction end, the solid catalyst was filtered, washed and dried in oven. Immediately, it was reused in another run without any previous activation.

Determination of the Sn content

The acid digestion and measurements of tin content was done in according with literature [18]. Typically, a mix of HNO3/H2O2 solutions was added to 0.1 gram of sample drop by drop. Afterward, the sample was gently swirled for a complete homogenization. After transfer to a tube, the digestion was performed at microwave oven. The digestion parameters as following: 1000 Watt; 80°C/ 5 min; 10°C min-1 to 200°C; time hold by 20 min. After cooling the rotor until the solution reaches room temperature, open the vessel and transfer the solution to a volumetric flask. The concentration of tin was determined by AAS analysis (Varian Spectra A- 200 model), in a spectrophotometer equipped with broker-absorbing substance. The samples were pumped into flame: acetylene-nitrous oxide. The parameters used were λ (235.5 nm), flame (C2H2/N2O) and detection limit (1 ppm). A calibration curve was built based on a stock standard solution of Tin (Merck, Germany).

Results and Discussion

General aspects

Initially, the catalytic activity of the stannous chloride was compared with the activity of others typical tin catalysts. It can be seen (Figure 1) that although a large excess of ethanol has been used, the reactions achieved poor conversions when the catalysts with low activity were present. Indeed, the insoluble oxide catalysts (i.e., SnO, SnO2) were the less active. These commercial oxides have low surface area and consequently are few active. For this reason, they are generally used supported on the matrix with higher surface area [20].

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Figure 1: Tin(II)-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohola. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethanol (155 mmol); tin catalyst (0.1 mmol) 60°C.

However, it should be noted the significant activity of tin(II) sulfate, which was almost insoluble; literature suggests that sulfate ion exert an electron withdrawing effect on the tin increasing its Lewis acidity [21]. Conversely, although totally soluble, the tin(II) acetate was almost inactive. Probably, the presence of bidentate ligand on tin(II) hampered the activation of oleic acid carbonyl group, making difficult its attack by the hydroxyl group of ethyl alcohol. Notably, the SnCl2 was the most active catalyst. This result is in agreement with literature [22]. This support the choice of SnCl2 as dopant to synthesizes heterogeneous catalysts. In next sections, the results of oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol over different supports (i.e., ZrO2, Nb2O5 and SiO2) treated thermally at temperatures of 100, 220 and 300 degrees are displayed. In each case are also presented the results of the reaction without catalyst, only in the presence and support catalyzed by SnCl2 in homogeneous phase.

Esterification of oleic acid over SnCl2/ ZrO2: Effect of the thermal treatment

The temperature of thermal treatment was the parameter selected for an adequate comparison between the catalytic activities of different tin(II) composites. Temperatures higher than 300°C may reduce the surface area of support. For this reason, and because this parameter will not discuss herein, the temperatures selected were 100, 200 and 300°C. The kinetic curves are displayed in Figure 2. Even being carried

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Figure 2: SnCl2/ZrO2-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: effects of temperature of thermal treatmenta. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of 50 % wt. SnCl2/ ZrO2); temperature (60°C).

out with a large excess of ethyl alcohol, the reaction-blank achieved only a poor yielding (ca. 5%). In the presence of ZrO2 support, the esterification of oleic acid reached < 10% of conversion. It can be attributed to the presence of the weak Brønsted acid sites present in the zirconia [23]. The results obtained in SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ ZrO2- catalyzed reactions (Figure 2) showed that the thermal treatment temperature was an extremely important factor for the activity of tin composites. The catalyst treated to 100C temperatures gave best results followed by the one treatment at 200°C. Indeed, the SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ZrO2 100°C solid catalyst was more active than soluble SnCl2. Conversely, for the composite treated to 300°C, the lowest conversion was achieved (ca. 43%). The literature describes that at temperatures higher than 80°C the SnCl2•2H2O loses its 2 water molecules [24]. Therefore, as water has negative contribution in esterification reaction (i.e., it is a byproduct and can shift equilibrium toward reactants) the catalysts treated to 100°C was thus more active than hydrate tin chloride, even being this latter a homogeneous catalyst. The catalyst treated to 200 C displayed a high initial reaction rate, however, at reaction end, the conversion reached was lower than one obtained by the SnCl2. Probably, at this temperature, the catalyst comprises of mixture of SnCl2 and SnO, as may be inferred if we comparing the color of samples of these composites (Figure 3).

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Figure 3: Samples of commercial and synthesized SnCl2/ZrO2 supported catalystsa. aFrom left to right: tin(II) chloride dihydrate, tin(II) oxide, tn(IV) oxide, zirconium oxide, and composites SnCl2 (50 wt. %)/ZrO2-100°C, SnCl2 (50 wt. %)/ZrO2-200°C and SnCl2 (50 wt. %)/ZrO2-300°C, respectivamente.

Figure 3 shows that the composite SnCl2 (50 wt.%)/ ZrO2-100°C has white coloration, while the composite treated to 200°C darkens, possibly suggesting that there is the formation of SnO, which has brown color. When the sample is heated to 300°C the composite to turn white, suggesting that prevails such as SnO2 species (Figure 3). However, when highest treatment temperatures was used (i.e., 300°C), a drastic drop on yielding happened; only 44% was reached. This fact could be triggered by the transformation of tin(II) chloride to tin(IV) oxide, which has low catalytic activity (see Figure 3). Therefore, it can be seen that the performance of zirconium-supported SnCl2 undergoes a strong influence of the thermal treatment, and the best and worst results were observed for the catalysts treated to 100 and 300°C, respectively.

Esterification of oleic acid over SnCl2/Nb2O5: Effect of the thermal treatment

When we analyzing the reactions carried over tin/ niobia catalysts, we can realize that thermal treatment temperature plays a crucial role on activity of these composites. The following increasing trend of activity was observed: SnCl2/ Nb2O5 (100°C)>SnCl2/Nb2O5 (200°C)>SnCl2>SnCl2/Nb2O5 (300°C) (Figure 4). The tendency observed was similar to that verified in reactions with zirconia supported catalysts. The alone support had negligible activity and once more, the treatment temperature drastically affected the activity of supported catalysts.

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Figure 4: SnCl2/Nb2O5-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: effects of temperature of thermal treatmenta. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of 50% wt. SnCl2/Nb2O5); temperature (60°C).

Esterification of oleic acid over SnCl2/SiO2: Effect of the thermal treatment

The tendency to low conversions for the composites treated to 300°C temperature continues, therefore, low conversions were obtained as confirming the results shown in Figure 5. It is suggestive that part of the tin chloride is truly becoming tin(IV) oxide. As observed for the other supports, the reaction catalyzed by the composite treated to 100°C achieved the highest ethyl oleate yielding (i.e., SnCl2 (50 wt.%)/ SiO2 100°C).

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Figure 5: SnCl2/SiO2-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: effects of temperature of thermal treatmenta. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of 50% wt. SnCl2/SiO2); temperature (60°C).

Assessment the stability of solid supported tin(II) catalysts

The catalysts treated to 100 and 300 degrees were selected to investigate the leaching. Figures 6-8 displays the main results. To do it, the reactions were carried by 30 minutes and afterward, the catalysts were filtered and the reaction monitored during 8 hours without the presence of catalyst. The Figure 6a and 6b shows that Sn(II) cations are leaching to the reaction solution, because even after the catalyst be removed, the reaction had its progress continued, mainly for the SnCl2/ Nb2O5 catalyst treated to 100°C. The stability of tin/zirconia supported solid catalysts in the reaction medium was also low as to that verified for the tin/ niobium catalysts (Figure 7). Conversely, an auspicious result was obtained for the silica supported catalyst treated to 200°C; almost no conversion was observed in the reaction after the removing of solid catalyst (Figure 8). Therefore, this catalyst was selected to be recovered and reused in consecutive catalytic tests (Figure 9).

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Figure 6: SnCl2/Nb2O5-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: assessment of catalyst leachinga. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of 50% wt. SnCl2/ Nb2O5); temperature (60°C).

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Figure 7: SnCl2/ZrO2-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: assessment of catalyst leachinga. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ZrO2); temperature (60°C).

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Figure 8: SnCl2/SiO2-catalyzed oleic acid esterification with ethyl alcohol: assessment of catalyst leachinga. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of SnCl2 (50% wt.)/SiO2); temperature (60°C).

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Figure 9: Recovery rates and ethyl oleate yielding of SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ SiO2 200°C catalyzed oleic acid esterification reactionsa. aReaction conditions: oleic acid (1.0 mmol); ethyl alcohol (155 mmol); catalyst (50 mg of SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ SiO2); temperature (60°C).

Heterogeneous catalysts have the main advantage over homogeneous catalysts the possibility of recovery and reuse. However, the leaching of the active component of the catalyst can cause its deactivation and contaminate the products. So, recovery and reuse tests should be performed only for catalysts that do not leach easily. The results show that the catalytic activity of SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ SiO2 200°C) suffered a decrease after three cycles of recovery/reuse (Figure 9).

The catalyst recovery rate varied between 86 and 82%, but, as we have seen, the SnCl2 (50% wt.)/ SiO2-200°C does not suffer a significant leaching process (Figure 8b). Thus is possible that some catalyst have been lost in steps of centrifugation, filtration or washing of catalyst.

FTIR spectra of the solid-supported tin(II) catalysts: SnCl2/ ZrO2, SnCl2/Nb2O5 and SnCl2/SiO2: Effect of thermal treatment

The supported tin(II) composites were analyzed by FT-IR aims to assess if the presence of tin(II) when the support were thermally treated had provoke any significant change. FT-IR spectra were obtained from all samples with different content of Sn(II) (ca. 30 and 50% w/w). The FT-IR spectra of solid supported catalysts were measured in the wavenumber range between 500- 4000 cm-1 (Figure 10). In general, all bands were overlapping by support bands. No significant changes could be observed after thermal treatment to 300 degrees temperature. At the same time, the characteristic bands of Sn-O or Sn-Cl were absent. Indeed, literature describes that stretching frequencies of Sn Cl bond are commonly observed between 325 and 384 cm-1 [25]. The characteristic bands of vibration of Sn-O are typically found at 500-523 cm-1 or 509 to 581 cm-1 wavenumbers [26,27]. However, these regions were overlapped by the support bands.

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Figure 10: FT-IR spectra of solid supported tin catalysts.

Determination of tin load in the solid supported catalysts

AAS analyses confirmed that the tin content in all samples synthesized, regardless support employed (Table 1)

Composite Theoretical amount (wt. %) Measured amount (wt. %)
SnCl2/SiO2 30.0 29.3
SnCl2/ZrO2 30.0 30.2
SnCl2/Nb2O5 30.0 29.4
aAnalysis conditions: See Materials and Methods (Determination of the Sn content)

Table 1: AAS analyses of samples of solid supported tin catalystsa.

Conclusion

The method used was efficient for the impregnation of SnCl2.2H2O in different support. The thermal treatment had a crucial role on catalytic activity of supported tin composites. In general, high yielding were achieved when the catalyst was treated to 100°C or 200°C. However, in these cases, a leaching of active phase was responsible by the activity, regardless support employed. When the temperature of treatment was 300°C, the change on the coloring of support indicated that the tin was converted to SnO2 or SnO. Previous tests had supported that the SnO and SnO2 pure solids were less active catalysts in these reactions. Nonetheless, the results obtained in esterification reactions in heterogeneous phase were highly promising; in the case of SnCl2/ SiO2-200°C; this was the most efficient and stable catalyst, and was recovered and reused without loss activity.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank to the CAPES, CNPq and FAPEMIG, Brazilian founding agency.

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