Lubricants, fuel additives, in automobile industries, in polymers, etc.
- Use of castor oil and its derivatives as raw material which are very cheap non-edible oil.
- Low-cost and commercially available catalysts are used as solid catalysts for the preparation of functionalized castor oil derivatives such as ring-opened glyceryl ricinoleates, epoxy alkyl ricinoleates and ring-opened alkyl ricinoleates.
- High yields of the products under benign reaction conditions
- Reaction chemistry can be altered by choosing different catalysts
- Catalysts are recyclable
- Physical properties of the functionalized castor oil derivatives suggest the possibility of tailoring the values by suitably choosing the appropriate nucleophiles/reaction chemistry or by simple blending of them.
- Methoxylated castor polyol (MCP) and isopropoxylated castor polyol (IPCP) - Scaled up at 100 g
- Epoxy methyl ricinoleate (EMR) - Scaled up at 50 g
- Methoxylated methyl ricinoleate (MMR) - Scaled up at 250 g
- Remaining all reactions - scaled up at 25 g
As India being a largest producer of castor oil, abundant scope is there to diversify different oleochemicals industry for several applications, such as lubricants, plasticizers, additives, etc.
Utilization of non-edible source castor oil) for the preparation of value-added chemicals to overcome food vs fuel issues created by edible oils.
Catalysts are easily recoverable (simple filtration) without any further addition of chemicals and reusable.
Epoxidized castor oil (sourced from M/s Jayant Agro Organics Ltd., Mumbai).
For reaction - Stirred tank reactor with water cooler system; Filtration assembly; Rotary evaporator for purification of the product mixture (to remove the unreacted nucleophiles/alcohols and solvents
Tentative Price:
Epoxidized castor oil: approx. ₹100/Kg
Methanol: approx. ₹20-30/L
Toluene: approx. ₹50-60/L
Functionalized castor oil products: approx. ₹250-500/Kg (Exact market value is not available because these are new molecules)
Know-how for process of several functionalized castor oil derivatives from ECO; Demonstration of the processes; Equipment necessary for pilot scale; License fee, royalty and other financial details are available on request.
