Biodiesel production from palm oil via heterogeneous transesterification |
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Authors: | Jibrail Kansedo Keat Teong Lee Subhash Bhatia |
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Affiliation: | School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, Seri Ampangan, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the study of the transesterification of palm oil via heterogeneous process using montmorillonite KSF as heterogeneous catalyst. This study was carried out using a design of experiment (DOE), specifically response surface methodology (RSM) based on four-variable central composite design (CCD) with α (alpha) = 2. The transesterification process variables were reaction temperature, x1 (50–190 °C), reaction period, x2 (60–300 min), methanol/oil ratio, x3 (4–12 mol mol?1) and amount of catalyst, x4 (1–5 wt%). It was found that the yield of palm oil fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) could reach up to 79.6% using the following reaction conditions: reaction temperature of 190 °C, reaction period at 180 min, ratio of methanol/oil at 8:1 mol mol?1 and amount of catalyst at 3%. |
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