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Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin

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Main Author: Abdul Mun’im, Mohammad Zaki
Other Authors: Rahimah Othman
Format: Learning Object
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2013
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Biodiesel
Crude palm oil
Ion-Exchange Resin
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/27746
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spelling my.unimap-277462013-08-27T09:14:00Z Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin Abdul Mun’im, Mohammad Zaki Rahimah Othman Biodiesel Crude palm oil Ion-Exchange Resin Access is limited to UniMAP community. Biodiesel based on crude palm oil (CPO) is gaining attention as a replacement for current fossil fuels due to high production of CPO locally in Malaysia other than government influence on findings solution for global problems regarding to the usage of petrodiesel. As a result, CPO is claimed to be a highly potential feedstock for food origin biodiesel. An acid catalyzed esterification process using sulphuric acid (H2SO4) was carried out to evaluate the low content of free fatty acids (FFA) in the treated CPO with the effects of other parameters such as methanol to oil molar ratio (6:1), reaction temperature (40–80 °C), reaction time (30–120 minutes) and stirring speed (600 rpm) using PORIM method. The results showed that the FFA of CPO was reduced from 4.24 % to less than 1.0 % FFA using 1.0 % wt/wt. of H2SO4. Response surface methodology (RSM) in conjunction with the central composite design (CCD) was employed to statistically evaluate and optimize the biodiesel production process. It was found that the production of biodiesel have achieved an optimum level of 89.23 % biodiesel yield at the following reaction conditions; (i) methanol to oil molar ratio of 13:1, (ii) reaction time of 120 minutes, (iii) reaction temperature of 62.64 °C, and (iv) stirring speed of 771.86 rpm. Purification of biodiesel products show that the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) concentration increased from 89.23 % (without purification) to 91.31 % (150 minutes purification time). Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometry analysis be evidence for the existence of ester group in produced biodiesel at the wavenumbers between 1780 to 1640 cm-1. Therefore, the verification of the efficiencies of ion-exchange resin can be concluded as a good purification method. 2013-08-27T09:14:00Z 2013-08-27T09:14:00Z 2012-05 Learning Object http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/27746 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Bioprocess Engineering
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topic Biodiesel
Crude palm oil
Ion-Exchange Resin
spellingShingle Biodiesel
Crude palm oil
Ion-Exchange Resin
Abdul Mun’im, Mohammad Zaki
Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
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Abdul Mun’im, Mohammad Zaki
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author Abdul Mun’im, Mohammad Zaki
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title Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
title_short Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
title_full Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
title_fullStr Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
title_full_unstemmed Purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using Ion-Exchange Resin
title_sort purification of biodiesel products from transesterification process using ion-exchange resin
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2013
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/27746
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