Review of the Production of Biodiesel from Waste Cooking Oil using Solid Catalysts
| Autor: | Mohd. Farid Muhammad Said, Nur Hamzah Said, Farid Nasir Ani |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Biodiesel
Engineering Waste management business.industry Mechanical Engineering lcsh:Mechanical engineering and machinery Fossil fuel Computational Mechanics heterogeneous catalyst Energy Engineering and Power Technology Transesterification Raw material Heterogeneous catalysis Environmentally friendly Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering waste cooking oil Diesel fuel Fuel Technology Mechanics of Materials Biodiesel production lcsh:TJ1-1570 business lcsh:Mechanics of engineering. Applied mechanics lcsh:TA349-359 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, Vol 8, Pp 1302-1311 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 2231-8380 2289-4659 |
| Popis: | The need for fossil fuels and the emissions generated from these fuels are increasing daily. Researchers are concerned with global warming as well as climate change; and energy sustainability and material usages are important issues today. Waste cooking oil (WCO) can be processed into biodiesel as an alternative fuel to replace diesel. Production of biodiesel using WCO as the feedstock has been of growing interest for the last two decades. A number of research papers related to the improvements in production, raw materials and catalyst selection have been published. This paper reviews the various types of heterogeneous solid catalyst in the production of biodiesel via the transesterification of WCO. The catalysts used can be classified according to their state presence in the transesterification reaction as homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts. Homogeneous catalysts act in the same liquid phase as the reaction mixture, whereas heterogeneous catalysts act in a solid phase with the reaction mixture. Heterogeneous catalysts are non-corrosive, a green process and environmentally friendly. They can be recycled and used several times, thus offering a more economic pathway for biodiesel production. The advantages and drawbacks of these heterogeneous catalysts are presented. Future work focuses on the application of economically and environmentally friendly solid catalysts in the production of biodiesel using WCO as the raw material. |
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