In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth

Currently, semi-refined and refined vegetable oils are used as a feedstock in biodiesel production. However, due to competition with conventional fossil fuel, economic reasons, shortage supply of food and its social impact on the global scale has somewhat slowed the development of biodiesel industry...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mat, Ramli, Ow, Shin Ling, Johari, Anwar, Mohamed, Mahadhir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diponegoro University 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/1/RamliMat2011_InSituBiodieselProductionFromResidualOilRecovered.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/
http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.6.1.678.53-57
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.utm.29196
record_format eprints
spelling my.utm.291962019-03-17T03:03:21Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/ In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth Mat, Ramli Ow, Shin Ling Johari, Anwar Mohamed, Mahadhir QD Chemistry Currently, semi-refined and refined vegetable oils are used as a feedstock in biodiesel production. However, due to competition with conventional fossil fuel, economic reasons, shortage supply of food and its social impact on the global scale has somewhat slowed the development of biodiesel industry. Studies have been conducted to recover oil from mill palm oil operation especially from the spent bleaching earth. Hence, the study was to investigate the potential recovery of oil from spent bleaching earth to be used as a feedstock for biodiesel production. The effect of different types of catalysts (sodium hydroxide alkali and sulfuric acid catalysts) on biodiesel yield was studied. In addition, the effect of volume addition of methanol to the weight of spent bleaching earth on the product yield was also studied. Furthermore, the effect of ratio of hexane to methanol was also carried out to determine its product yield. The studies were carried out in an in-situ biodiesel reactor system and the biodiesel product was analyzed using gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Result shows that the use of alkali catalyst produced the highest yield of biodiesel and the most optimum biodiesel yield was obtained when the methanol to spent bleaching earth ratio was 3.2:1 (gram of methanol: gram of SBE) and hexane to methanol ratio of 0.6:1 (volume of hexane: volume of methanol). Diponegoro University 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/1/RamliMat2011_InSituBiodieselProductionFromResidualOilRecovered.pdf Mat, Ramli and Ow, Shin Ling and Johari, Anwar and Mohamed, Mahadhir (2011) In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth. Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, 6 (1). pp. 53-57. ISSN 1978-2993 http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.6.1.678.53-57 DOI:10.9767/bcrec.6.1.678.53-57
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
building UTM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
content_source UTM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://eprints.utm.my/
language English
topic QD Chemistry
spellingShingle QD Chemistry
Mat, Ramli
Ow, Shin Ling
Johari, Anwar
Mohamed, Mahadhir
In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
description Currently, semi-refined and refined vegetable oils are used as a feedstock in biodiesel production. However, due to competition with conventional fossil fuel, economic reasons, shortage supply of food and its social impact on the global scale has somewhat slowed the development of biodiesel industry. Studies have been conducted to recover oil from mill palm oil operation especially from the spent bleaching earth. Hence, the study was to investigate the potential recovery of oil from spent bleaching earth to be used as a feedstock for biodiesel production. The effect of different types of catalysts (sodium hydroxide alkali and sulfuric acid catalysts) on biodiesel yield was studied. In addition, the effect of volume addition of methanol to the weight of spent bleaching earth on the product yield was also studied. Furthermore, the effect of ratio of hexane to methanol was also carried out to determine its product yield. The studies were carried out in an in-situ biodiesel reactor system and the biodiesel product was analyzed using gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Result shows that the use of alkali catalyst produced the highest yield of biodiesel and the most optimum biodiesel yield was obtained when the methanol to spent bleaching earth ratio was 3.2:1 (gram of methanol: gram of SBE) and hexane to methanol ratio of 0.6:1 (volume of hexane: volume of methanol).
format Article
author Mat, Ramli
Ow, Shin Ling
Johari, Anwar
Mohamed, Mahadhir
author_facet Mat, Ramli
Ow, Shin Ling
Johari, Anwar
Mohamed, Mahadhir
author_sort Mat, Ramli
title In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
title_short In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
title_full In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
title_fullStr In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
title_full_unstemmed In situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
title_sort in situ biodiesel production from residual oil recovered from spent bleaching earth
publisher Diponegoro University
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/1/RamliMat2011_InSituBiodieselProductionFromResidualOilRecovered.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29196/
http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.6.1.678.53-57
_version_ 1643648247596580864
score 13.209306