Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020)

Optimally Efficient Biodiesel Conversion From Used Cooking Oil by Zeolite Supported Calcium Oxide Catalyst

Authors
Nurul Saadiah Lani, Norzita Ngadi, Roshanida A. Rahman, Zaki Yamani Zakaria, Agus Arsad, Mimi Haryani Hassim
Corresponding Author
Norzita Ngadi
Available Online 30 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.201229.015How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Biodiesel, calcium oxide, zeolite, used cooking oil, heterogeneous catalyst
Abstract

Biodiesel is conventionally catalyzed by homogeneous catalyst such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide, which possesses several disadvantages as they are difficult to separate from biodiesel products and require a multiple neutralization step. Therefore, the usage and development of heterogeneous catalyst has attracted the most research attention over the last few years to overcome those issues. In this study, zeolite supported calcium oxide (CaO) was synthesized and then characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Subsequently, their performance as catalyst was tested by carrying out the transesterification reaction of used cooking oil (UCO). A focus of this paper is to determine the optimum reaction conditions and evaluate their effect on the yield of biodiesel. The FTIR and XRD results of the supported catalyst confirmed the presence of both CaO and zeolite components. The optimum conditions, which gave biodiesel yield of 86.82%, were recorded to be a 3 wt% catalyst concentration, 15:1 methanol to oil molar ratio, 65 °C reaction temperature and 1 h reaction time.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
30 December 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-310-3
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/aer.k.201229.015How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Zaki Yamani Zakaria
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