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ArticleEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority2017

Evaluation of the Application for new alternative biodiesel production process for rendered fat of Cat 1 (BDI-RepCat process, AT).

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ), Antonia Ricci, Ana Allende, Declan Bolton, Marianne Chemaly, Robert Davies, Rosina Girones, Lieve Herman, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Roland Lindqvist and 17 more

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Article in EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)
Antonia Ricci
Ana Allende
Declan Bolton
Marianne Chemaly
Robert Davies
Rosina Girones
Lieve Herman
Konstantinos Koutsoumanis
Roland Lindqvist
Birgit Nørrung
Lucy Robertson
Giuseppe Ru
Moez Sanaa
Marion Simmons
Panagiotis Skandamis
Emma Snary
Niko Speybroeck
Benno Ter Kuile
John Threlfall
Helene Wahlström
Avelino Alvarez Ordoñez
John Griffin
John Spiropoulos
Emmanuel Vanopdenbosch
Sandra Correia
Pablo Salvador Fernández Escámez

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A new alternative method for the production of biodiesel from rendered fat of all categories of animal by-products was assessed. The process was compared to the approved biodiesel production process described in Chapter IV Section 2 D of Annex IV of Commission Regulation (EU) 142/2011. Tallow derived from Category 1 material is treated according to Method 1 from the same Regulation (133°C, 20 min, 3 bar) and subsequently mixed with 15% methanol, heated to reaction temperature (220°C) in several heat exchangers and transferred into the continuous conversion reactor by means of a high pressure pump (80 bar) for 30 min. In the conversion phase, there is an exposure to methanol in the absence of alkaline or acidic conditions. The impact of this procedure on the thermostability of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) has not been assessed in the literature. After the reaction, the biodiesel/glycerol mixture is distilled under vacuum at a minimum temperature of 150°C and a maximum pressure of 10 mbar, which is equivalent to the distillation step in the approved biodiesel production process, for which a 3 log

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animal by‐productbiodieselcategory 1conversionrendered fatrisk reductionTSE

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PMID32625346
PMCPMC7009799
OpenAlexW2768343484

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