Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
Mehulkumar L Savaliya and Bharatkumar Z Dholakiya
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
The traditional processes have been applied for production of biodiesel are based on basic catalysts and necessitates
moisture free conditions and also feed stocks with lower levels of free fatty acid contents. Alkaline catalysts reveal the
higher reaction rate than acidic catalysts. However, the alkaline catalysts involved soap formation of free fatty acid leading
to the deactivation of catalysts and impart high production cost. Therefore, the work was investigated to synthesize biodiesel
fuel via transesterification of waste cooking oil over silica melamine trisulfonic acid as an efficient, recoverable and recyclable
solid acid catalyst. The process variables that influence the biodiesel production, such as reaction temperature, reaction time,
catalyst loading and methanol to oil molar ratio were investigated and optimized using RSM. Synthesized catalyst was fittingly
characterized by FT-IR, NH3-TPD, BET, XRD and SEM analysis, whereas synthesized biodiesel fuel was duly characterized by
FT-IR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR spectroscopic techniques.