Continuous biodiesel process using ultrasonic in-line reactor for jatropha curcas oil (JCO)
Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for replacing diesel fuel in compression ignition engines. Due to the complexity of the diesel fuel production and exhaust emissions from petroleum-fuelled engines will give negative impact to the environment. In this study, the sodium hydroxide as the catalyst was u...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9854/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9854/1/Nurrul_Rahmah_Mohd_Yusoff.pdf |
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| Summary: | Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for replacing diesel fuel in compression ignition engines.
Due to the complexity of the diesel fuel production and exhaust emissions from
petroleum-fuelled engines will give negative impact to the environment. In this study,
the sodium hydroxide as the catalyst was used to react with methanol for obtaining
chemical compound that is called methyl ester which is known as biodiesel. The method
used are Ultrasonic. Basically, this method will reduce the reaction time on the
conversation of jatropha curcas oil (JCO) into biodiesel. The experiment was to
determine the effect of esters contents by reaction time, molar ratio methanol (MeOH) to
JCO, the amount of catalyst, frequency and power output of ultrasonic using ultrasonic
in-line reactor. The optimum production of biodiesel was achieved at 7 minutes of
reaction time, 1%wt of catalyst concentration and molar ratio methanol to oil 12:1,
frequency ultrasonic of 20 KHz and ultrasonic output 600 Watt at temperature 65°C.
The biodiesel produced by this method has been referred according to ASTM D6751.
From the result, the biodiesel produced from this method has satisfied the requirement
biodiesel standard. This optimum result in this research can be used to run larger pilot
plant designed for industry. |
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