Yan Liu, Xin-Gang Fan, Meng-Yu Liu, Lei Wang, Peng-Yu Wang, Han-Rui Xu, Yu-Xin Chen, Shuo-Ping Chen
To provide low-cost wax and a new methodology for utilizing waste cooking oil (WCO), fatty acid wax based on WCO was synthesized by using epoxidation and hydrolysis treatments, whose properties included melting point, color, hardness, combustion properties, aldehyde content, and microscopic morphology were tested and analyzed. The obtained WCO-based wax contained mixed fatty acids, including palmitic acid and 9,10-dihydroxystearic acid as main constituents, which could form a 3D stable crossing network constructed by large long-rod crystals...
December 12, 2022: RSC Advances