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International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJASEAT)-IJASEAT |
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Issue |
Volume-5, Issue-3 ( Jul, 2017 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Continuous Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil Using Homogeneous Catalyst with Microwave Heating | |||||||||
Author Name |
Tinnabhop Santadkha, Malee Santikunaporn | |||||||||
Affilition |
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Thammasat University | |||||||||
Pages |
21-24 | |||||||||
Abstract |
Biodiesel is a renewable transportation fuel consisting of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), generally produced by trans-esterification of vegetable oils or animal fats. At present, a continuous flow system has been developed to increase manufacturing capacity of biodiesel from waste cooking oil that is generated from a number of sectors. Since waste cooking palm oil contained large amount of fatty acids, which inhibit the trans-esterification reaction and forms soap, it has to be treated in an esterification process first so that the free fatty acids content is lower than 1 wt. % of oil. This research aims to produce biodiesel from waste cooking palm oil in a continuous flow system assisted by microwave irradiation. Esterification of waste cooking palm oil at 60oC, alcohol-to-oil molar ratio of 12:1, catalyst concentration of 6 wt. % of fatty acid, volumetric flow rate of 520 ml/min, was able to reduce the amount of free fatty acids from 2.25 wt. % to 0.56 wt. % of oil. The optimum conditions for the production of biodiesel from treated waste cooking palm oil was at 60๐C, alcohol-to-oil ratio of 12:1 volumetric flow rate of 520 ml/min and the catalyst concentration of 2.5 wt. % of oil, with 99.1% yield and 97.79 wt. % methyl ester. Index term- Biodiesel, Palm Oil, Transesterification, Esterification, Microwave irradiation. | |||||||||
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