Esterification reaction tower for biodiesel

• Main Authors: YANG JIANBIN, ZHANG XUEWANG, LI JIAN, QI MEIHONG, REN JIHAI, DU CHUANLIN, QI WEIBING, LI HUAZHANG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 23.07.2014
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; DETERGENTS; FATS, OILS OR FATTY ACIDS BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF FATS,OILS, OR FATTY ACIDS OBTAINED THEREFROM; FATTY ACIDS FROM FATS, OILS OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FIRELIGHTERS; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; NATURAL GAS; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE

The utility model provides an esterification reaction tower for biodiesel. The esterification reaction tower comprises a material discharge port, a methanol inlet, thermometers, piezometers, liquid indicators, baiting valves, a methanol outlet, a material feed port and a tower body, wherein the material feed port and the methanol outlet are formed in the top end of the tower body, the methanol inlet and the material discharge port are formed in the bottom of the tower body, multiple layers of orifice plates are arranged in the tower body at intervals; each baiting valve is arranged beside each layer of orifice plate and used for maintaining the liquid level height of a material; each liquid indicator is arranged beside each layer of orifice plate and used for observing the liquid level height of the material layer on each layer of orifice plate in the tower body; and each thermometers and each piezometer are arranged beside each layer of orifice plate and used for observing the temperature and pressure of eac