Optimally Efficient Biodiesel Conversion From Used Cooking Oil by Zeolite Supported Calcium Oxide Catalyst
- DOI
- 10.2991/aer.k.201229.015How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Biodiesel, calcium oxide, zeolite, used cooking oil, heterogeneous catalyst
- Abstract
Biodiesel is conventionally catalyzed by homogeneous catalyst such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, which possesses several disadvantages as they are difficult to separate from biodiesel products and require a multiple neutralization step. Therefore, the usage and development of heterogeneous catalyst has attracted the most research attention over the last few years to overcome those issues. In this study, zeolite supported calcium oxide (CaO) was synthesized and then characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Subsequently, their performance as catalyst was tested by carrying out the transesterification reaction of used cooking oil (UCO). A focus of this paper is to determine the optimum reaction conditions and evaluate their effect on the yield of biodiesel. The FTIR and XRD results of the supported catalyst confirmed the presence of both CaO and zeolite components. The optimum conditions, which gave biodiesel yield of 86.82%, were recorded to be a 3 wt% catalyst concentration, 15:1 methanol to oil molar ratio, 65 °C reaction temperature and 1 h reaction time.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nurul Saadiah Lani AU - Norzita Ngadi AU - Roshanida A. Rahman AU - Zaki Yamani Zakaria AU - Agus Arsad AU - Mimi Haryani Hassim PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/30 TI - Optimally Efficient Biodiesel Conversion From Used Cooking Oil by Zeolite Supported Calcium Oxide Catalyst BT - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 105 EP - 109 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.201229.015 DO - 10.2991/aer.k.201229.015 ID - Lani2020 ER -