Environmental Recovery by Magnetic Nanocomposites Based on Castor Oil - Natural Polymers, Biopolymers, Biomaterials, and Their Composites, Blends, and IPNs - page 243

Figure 8. Magnetic force as a function of the temperature (T) and time (t).

alkyd resin Production
The polymeric resin was prepared using the castor oil obtained from castor beams.
The castor oil possesses large amounts of triglycerides, Figure 9. These triglycerides
react with an alcohol, in a basic medium, to produce biodiesel and glycerin, as shown
in Figure 10 .

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Figure 9. (a) Castor oil from castor beams (behind) (Proquinor, 2010), (b) triglycerides structure.