부산대학교 도서관

With the growing awareness about the importance of commitment for sustainable development requirements, the focus on the technologies for clean and environmentally friendly fuel production has significantly increased. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are a new class of ionic liquid (IL). They are inexpensive, non-toxic and environmentally friendly and their various industrial applications have received much attention in recent years. Some of the DESs are composed of a mixture of different proportions of halide salts and a hydrogen bonding organic material and can be utilized in biodiesel production and purification processes. The present research focuses on using DESs as catalysts and co-solvents, as well as extracting agent in the biodiesel production and purification processes. The DESs could potentially direct future research on an industrial scale.