Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification

The transesterification of triglyceride mostly found in vegetable oils with methanol using homogeneous lewis acid is one of promising method to convert triglyceride into fatty acid methyl ester which is an alternative to replace fossil fuel as energy source mostly in transportation industry. This st...

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Main Author: Abd Rahman, Diyanti
Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3284/
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spelling ump-32842015-03-03T08:00:20Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3284/ Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification Abd Rahman, Diyanti TP Chemical technology The transesterification of triglyceride mostly found in vegetable oils with methanol using homogeneous lewis acid is one of promising method to convert triglyceride into fatty acid methyl ester which is an alternative to replace fossil fuel as energy source mostly in transportation industry. This study aimed to determine the conversion of fatty acid methyl ester and also to determine the optimum conditions for the production of methyl ester via transesterification process using aluminium chloride as the catalyst and methanol as solvent. By using conventional catalyst such as NaOH and KOH, it formed soap via saponification process and produce huge amount of wastewater in order to separate the reactant and product. Scopes for this research including the effect of molar ratio methanol to oil, effect of reaction temperature and effect of catalyst concentration. After experiments have been done, the most optimum conditions for sunflower oil transesterification can be achived at reaction temperature is 100°C, molar ratio 12:1 methanol to oil and 5 g of aluminium chloride. The highest conversion from these conditions is 91% conversion of fatty acid methyl ester. 2010-04 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3284/1/CD5864_DIYANTI_AB_RAHMAN.pdf Abd Rahman, Diyanti (2010) Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification. Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering , Universiti Malaysia Pahang .
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Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
description The transesterification of triglyceride mostly found in vegetable oils with methanol using homogeneous lewis acid is one of promising method to convert triglyceride into fatty acid methyl ester which is an alternative to replace fossil fuel as energy source mostly in transportation industry. This study aimed to determine the conversion of fatty acid methyl ester and also to determine the optimum conditions for the production of methyl ester via transesterification process using aluminium chloride as the catalyst and methanol as solvent. By using conventional catalyst such as NaOH and KOH, it formed soap via saponification process and produce huge amount of wastewater in order to separate the reactant and product. Scopes for this research including the effect of molar ratio methanol to oil, effect of reaction temperature and effect of catalyst concentration. After experiments have been done, the most optimum conditions for sunflower oil transesterification can be achived at reaction temperature is 100°C, molar ratio 12:1 methanol to oil and 5 g of aluminium chloride. The highest conversion from these conditions is 91% conversion of fatty acid methyl ester.
format Undergraduates Project Papers
author Abd Rahman, Diyanti
author_facet Abd Rahman, Diyanti
author_sort Abd Rahman, Diyanti
title Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
title_short Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
title_full Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
title_fullStr Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
title_full_unstemmed Biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
title_sort biodiesel production via homogeneous lewis acid catalyzed transesterification
publishDate 2010
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3284/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/3284/1/CD5864_DIYANTI_AB_RAHMAN.pdf
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