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Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)

TP359.B48 K35 2017

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Main Author: Kaviraj Thiagarajan
Format: text::Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Biodiesel fuels
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-337012024-10-13T02:02:23Z Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB) Kaviraj Thiagarajan Biodiesel fuels TP359.B48 K35 2017 UNITEN is well known for it's "Green Campus" credentials and have been producing biodiesel from waste cooking oil for quite some time. Recent studies have shown that biodiesel can be considered for gas turbine applications. It was found that the properties of biodiesel converted from waste cooking oil or better known as First Generation Biodiesel (FGB) was not suitable to be used for gas turbine applications. There was a need for enhancement in the FGB fuel, therefore a microwave heating distillation system was developed by UNITEN. The Microwave Assisted Post- Treatment Scheme (MAPTRES) distillates the FGB fuel into a better quality fuel called Second Generation Biodiesel (SGB), which had better properties than the former. However, the MAPTRES system have not been commissioned yet as it requires performance evaluation prior to SGB's production. Therefore, three objectives were lined out whereby the first objective was to develop an operational procedure to conduct the distillation process in MAPTRES and evaluate it's performance. The second objective was to identify all the optimum operational parameters of the system through experimental works and engineering analysis. Finally, the SGB produced based on the developed procedures and identified optimum parameters will be sent for property evaluation test to analyze it's quality. A set of methodology was prepared to execute the project in accordance to the objectives. The primary operational procedures were developed based on the trial run that was conducted on the system at controlled conditions. The procedures were then modified to fit the requirements of objective 2, whereby the parameter settings were manipulated. With the procedure ready, four sets of experiments with different parameter settings were conducted. Each set was conducted at a fixed microwave temperature range settings and different vacuum pressures. The following sets were then done by manipulating the microwave temperature range setting. Samples of the product were collected in beakers and the results were tabulated and analyzed. The sample with the best result was then sent for property evaluation test in which the test results were used to analyze the physical properties of the product in accordance to the gas turbine fuel specification standard ASTM D2880. 2024-10-07T02:48:41Z 2024-10-07T02:48:41Z 2017 Resource Types::text::Final Year Project https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/33701 en application/pdf
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topic Biodiesel fuels
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Kaviraj Thiagarajan
Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
description TP359.B48 K35 2017
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author Kaviraj Thiagarajan
author_facet Kaviraj Thiagarajan
author_sort Kaviraj Thiagarajan
title Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
title_short Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
title_full Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
title_fullStr Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
title_full_unstemmed Performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (MAPTRES) to produce second generation biodiesel (SGB)
title_sort performance evaluation of microwave assisted post treatment scheme (maptres) to produce second generation biodiesel (sgb)
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