Biodiesel production from waste sunflower cooking oil as an environmental recycling process and renewable energy

Hossain, A.B.M.S. and Boyce, A.N. (2009) Biodiesel production from waste sunflower cooking oil as an environmental recycling process and renewable energy. Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science, 15 (4). pp. 313-318. ISSN 1310-0351,

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Abstract

Comparison of the optimum conditions of alkaline-catalyzed transesterification process for biodiesel production from pure sunflower cooking oil (PSCO) and waste sunflower cooking Oil (WSCO) through transesterification process using alkaline catalysts was studied. To obtain a high quality biodiesel fuel that comply the specification of standard methods (ASTM D 6751 & EN 14214), some important variables such as volumetric ratio, types of reactants and catalytic activities were selected. The highest approximately 99.5 biodiesel yield acquired under optimum conditions of 1:6 volumetric oil-to-methanol ratio, 1 KOH catalyst at 40(sic)C reaction temperature and 320 rpm stirring speed. Result showed that the biodiesel production from PSCO and WSCO exhibited no considerable differences. The research demonstrated that biodiesel obtained under optimum conditions from PSCO & WSCO was of good quality and could be used as a diesel fuel which considered as renewable energy and environmental recycling process from waste oil after frying.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords: Biodiesel transesterification, sunflower oil, waste cooking oil, vegetable-oils, supercritical methanol, transesterification, fuels,
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences
Depositing User: miss munirah saadom
Date Deposited: 17 Jul 2013 00:19
Last Modified: 26 Dec 2014 02:52
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/7727

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