TY - CONF PB - Elsevier Ltd SN - 22147853 Y1 - 2019/// EP - 2107 VL - 16 A1 - Sajid, M. A1 - Ayoub, M. A1 - Uemura, Y. A1 - Yusup, S. A1 - Saleem, M. A1 - Abdullah, B. A1 - Khan, A.U. UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072408443&doi=10.1016%2fj.matpr.2019.06.098&partnerID=40&md5=d9402ef90a78e8dc74aec392bfd3235a AV - none SP - 2101 ID - scholars12047 TI - Comparative study of glycerol conversion to polyglycerol via conventional and microwave irradiation reactor KW - Biodiesel; Catalysts; Costs; Irradiation; Microwave irradiation; Sodium Carbonate KW - Comparatives studies; Conversion; Food industries; Glycerol conversions; HPLC; Low-costs; Microwave- irradiations; Oleochemicals; Polyglycerols; Yield KW - Glycerol N2 - The production of biodiesel and oleochemicals has been increasing around the world for more than a decade. This increased production is creating a heap of low-value glycerol as a byproduct. Thus, the glycerol supply is totally independent to its demand now a day due to available this huge glut of biodiesel drive glycerol. This unique situation has led the glycerol price low, which is also a factor to hinder the economical price of biodiesel. Now glycerol is used as a raw material for conversion into the useful product (polyglycerol) due to its low cost, availability and enormous application of polyglycerol in food, polymer, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. The comparative study showed that the optimize etherification process for 90 conversion of glycerol examined into polyglycerol under microwave irradiations as a heat source within 3 hours by using Li/MK10 catalyst and 80 conversion by conventional heating under a solvent-free conditions within 8 hours by using homogenous catalyst Na2CO3 © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. N1 - cited By 3; Conference of 2017 Conference on Biomedical and Advanced Materials, Bio-CAM 2017 ; Conference Date: 28 November 2017 Through 29 November 2017; Conference Code:151551 ER -