ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information

Density and viscosity of cottonseed oil/derivatives and fatty acid methyl ester/derivatives;

effects of CO2 pressure on the kinetics of CO2 absorption in the EFAME solution, and temperature on the kinetics of CO2 absorption in the FAME, EFAME and CFAME solutions;

evolutions of the solubility of CO2 at different CO2 pressure for FAME, EFAME and CFAME;

Van’t Hoff curve for Henry’s constants, evolution of a’ and b’ for the density and Arrhenius data are provided.

Tables

Table 1. Fatty acid components of cottonseed oil

Table 2. Estimated and statistical data for modified mass transfer coefficients

Table 3. Estimated and statistical data at Tref = 403.15 K for the carbonation of EFAME

Figure captions

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of epoxidation setup Figure 2. Schematic diagram of carbonation setup

Figure 3. Ratio of

Figure 5. Effect of the composition on the kinetics of CO2 absorption in the EFAME solution at 20 bar, 120 °C and rotating speed of 500 rpm

Figure 7. Fitting of the model to the experimental observation Run 9 Figure 8. Fitting of the model to the experimental observation for Run 19 Figure 9. Fitting of the model to the experimental observation Run 44

Figure 10. Fit of the model to the experiment data of [Ep]/[EP]0 for Runs 53 and 61 Figure 11. Fit of the model to the experiment data of [Ep]/[EP]0 for Runs 55 and 65 Figure 12. The variation of kECSO / kEFAME with different reaction temperature

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