Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil

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Main Author: Ngu, Ai Ling
Other Authors: Dr. Farizul Hafiz Kasim
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2014
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spelling my.unimap-375962014-11-04T01:37:33Z Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil Ngu, Ai Ling Dr. Farizul Hafiz Kasim Biodiesel Biodiesel production Cooking oil Waste cooking oil Transesterification Access is limited to UniMAP community. In this study, the level of free fatty acids in used oil are low at 0.73 %, hence, single stage transesterification was sufficient. Two process variables that been investigated were the molar ratio of methanol-to oil and the amount of catalyst, KOH. The variables that were fixed throughout the whole experiment were the reaction time, 90 minutes, reaction temperature, 55 °C and mixing degree of mechanical stirrer at 1200 rpm. The results show the highest biodiesel production, which reached 98 % of biodiesel is 9:1 molar ratio of methanol-to-oil with 0.5 wt % catalyst. Besides, this paper also studied on the purification of biodiesel through distilled water washing method to produce high purity biodiesel. Biodiesel purification was carried out by washed the biodiesel with different volume of distilled water with respect to the biodiesel at temperatures below 60 °C and 1200 rpm agitation. Results show 15% (v/v) distilled water to produce high purity biodiesel with a low saponification number, 211775 mg/g. To commercialize the product, a conceptual design of the production plants has been done with the SuperPro designer software to evaluate the economic assessment of the product. From SuperPro, the selling price of the methyl ester (biodiesel) is RM 2.30/liter. 2014-11-04T01:37:33Z 2014-11-04T01:37:33Z 2013-06 Learning Object http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/37596 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Bioprocess Engineering
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topic Biodiesel
Biodiesel production
Cooking oil
Waste cooking oil
Transesterification
spellingShingle Biodiesel
Biodiesel production
Cooking oil
Waste cooking oil
Transesterification
Ngu, Ai Ling
Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
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title Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
title_short Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
title_full Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
title_fullStr Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
title_full_unstemmed Transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
title_sort transesterification and purification of biodiesel from waste cooking oil
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2014
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/37596
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