Sustainable joint solventless coproduction of glycerol carbonate and ethylene glycol via thermal transesterification of glycerol
- 8 October 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 4 (95) , 53206-53215
Abstract
Valuable glycerol carbonate and ethylene glycol can simultaneously be obtained from glycerol in solventless operation by means of a thermal reaction in the absence of a catalyst.Keywords
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