Esterification of oil adsorbed on palm decanter cake into methyl ester using sulfonated rice husk ash as heterogeneous acid catalyst

• Main Authors: Noor, Hindryawati, Erwin, Erwin, Maniam, Gaanty Pragas
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: American Institute of Physics Inc. 2017
• Subjects: QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18467/1/Noor%2CH.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18467/7/hindryawati2017_2.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18467/; http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4975965
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Palm Decanter cake (PDC) which is categorized as the waste from palm oil mill has been found to contain residual crude palm oil. The oil adsorbed on the PDC (PDC-oil) can be extracted and potentially used as feedstock for biodiesel production. Feedstock from waste like PDC-oil is burdened with high...