Influência do biodiesel de soja na biodegradação anaeróbia do benzeno e tolueno

Biodiesel for combustible engine is available as mixture of fossil diesel and fatty esters obtained by transesterification of vegetable oils. The use of biodiesel reduces the amount of SO, mainly. However, it was already observed that biodiesel has a different behavior in environment in cases of accidental spill and groundwater contamination. It was noticed that the biodegradation of hydrocarbons (cyclic and aliphatic) in the presence of biodiesel are speeded, although the mechanism is still unclear. Considering the chemical structure of fatty esters, it was investigated the formation of aggregates in water solution by fatty esters present in commercial biodiesel. In Brazil, biodiesel is composed by 95% of fossil diesel and 5% of fatty esters mixture. In this work, fatty esters were treated as neutral surfactant, i.e., it was treated as a molecule with polar and non-polar part. Turbidity and fluorescence were used to determine the critical aggregates concentration (CAC). Water solutions containing fatty esters were examined exploiting changes in turbidity and fluorescence intensity of pyrene. Abrupt changes were attributed to aggregates formation, following the same behavior of traditional amphiphilic compounds. It was determined the CAC for ethyl palmitate, ethyl stearate, ethyl oleate, and ethyl linoleate. The values of CAC for fatty esters varied from 1.91 to 4.27 μmol/L, while CAC for the mixture of esters (biodiesel) was 2.01 for methyl esters and 1.19 for ethyl esters, both prepared using soybean oil. The aggregates formation was also determined by fluorescence measurements considering the changes in intensity of peaks I and III of pyrene. Pyrene senses the changes in environment polarity. The values found of CAC by fluorescence for individual ethyl esters varied from 1.85 to 3.21 μmol/L, while mixtures of ethyl esters was 2.23 and 2.07 μmol/L for mixture of methyl esters. The results clearly showed that fatty esters form aggregates and might be responsible for speed degradation of compounds by accommodation of them in inner part of aggregates.

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Biodegradation of biodiesel and toluene under nitrate-reducing conditions and the impact on bacterial community structure

Ribeiro

Silva

Jesus

et al. 2018

J Soils Sediments

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Influência do biodiesel de soja na biodegradação anaeróbia do benzeno e tolueno

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Enhancing the Solubility of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Fatty Esters Present in Biodiesel

Enhancing the Solubility of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Fatty Esters Present in Biodiesel

Critical aggregates concentration of fatty esters present in biodiesel determined by turbidity and fluorescence

Biodegradation of biodiesel and toluene under nitrate-reducing conditions and the impact on bacterial community structure

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