Biodiesel production from polanga oil extracted using Soxhlet Extractor with different type of solvent and ratio of seed to solvent

• Main Author: Hamzah, Nurul Zurairah
• Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
• Published: 2020
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/4162/

Biodiesel is an alternative to petroleum-based fuels produced from various type of feedstock. In this study, non-feedstock raw material was used in producing oil and converted into biodiesel. This study also investigated the different amount of oil produced from soxhlet extraction using a different type of solvent and ratio of solvent and seed. Soxhlet extraction is also known as solvent extraction of chemical extraction, which is referred to the preferential dissolution of oil by contacting oilseed with a liquid solvent. Different solvent such as n-hexane and petroleum ether were used for the extraction of Calophyllum Inophyllum seed to study which solvent will yield more oil. Different ratio which is 1:8 and 1:10 also will be studied to identify which ratio will produce the highest yield of oil. The results show that n-hexane had high ability to yield a high amount of oil compare to petroleum ether. Ratio 1:10 also produce the highest yield of oil compare to 1:8 which it’s approved that the amount of oil was influenced by the amount of solvent seed (Calophyllum Inophyllum) seeds are abundant and wasted because they had not been used in the application of daily life. The biodiesel that produced from Polanga oil seed had been tested using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) and methyl ester were observed that approved the oil has capability in producing biodiesel