Biodiesel Fuel from Waste Cooking Oil: A Cheaper and Cleaner Renewable Energy Source
| Autor: | Salim Nassreddine, Riham Kanaan, Diana Luciana Cursaru, Jean Chamoun, Elissar Al-Aawar, Bassam Riachi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Biodiesel
Cooking oil Waste management Process equipment business.industry Materials Science (miscellaneous) Process Chemistry and Technology General Engineering food and beverages General Chemistry General Medicine complex mixtures General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Renewable energy Petrochemistry Materials Chemistry General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics business |
| Zdroj: | Revista de Chimie. 72:186-199 |
| ISSN: | 2668-8212 0034-7752 |
| DOI: | 10.37358/rc.21.2.8430 |
| Popis: | Low cost, high fatty acid content waste cooking oil was transformed into biodiesel using an acid catalyzed chemical esterification reaction with 0.5 vol.% of H2SO4 at 60�C for 1 hour followed by the main transesterification reaction. For the purpose of comparison, biodiesel fuel was also prepared using straight vegetable oils (SVO�s). The gas chromatography test showed higher than 95% FAME (fatty acid methyl ester) content for different types of utilized feedstocks. Biodiesel fuel and its blends were characterized based on ASTM test methods to investigate its density, viscosity, flash point, pour point, heating value, and its cetane index and similar physical properties were obtained for all the prepared biodiesel fuels. B20 blend, which contains 20 vol.% of biodiesel and 80 vol.% of diesel, showed a better performance than B0 (100 vol.% of diesel) when tested in a laboratory compression ignition diesel engine. After simulation of the production process via Aspen Hysys, a feasibility study was conducted and the results revealed that utilizing waste cooking oils (WCO�s) as feedstock is more economical than starting with SVO�s as raw material. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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