You have no items in your shopping cart.
ABSTRACT
Biodiesel can substitute petrodiesel in whole or in parts in both developed and developing countries in energy sectors. To make biodiesel cost efficient and a suitable fuel choice, an integrated approach is required. Due to the simplicity of the catalytic preparation and its suitability, the use of sulphonated activated carbon(SAC) is common for the generation of biodiesel. Biodiesel manufacturing utilizing solid acid catalyst is quite expensive.
In this study, a unique SAC using waste rubber seed shell was synthesized to contain an active SO³H, resulting in the desired catalyst, using a less common technique of sulphonation. In order to boost the porosity of the activated carbon, carbonisation temperatures was set at 500°C, which raised the required area to 523.3m²/g for group SO3H attachments. The pore volume area is 0.3004cc/g and the pore size is 2.128nm.
The FAME Yield was discovered to be dependent on the methanol to oil ratio(tested from 4:1 to 20:1) and on the esterification period (tested from 2hrs to 10hrs) of waste cooking oil at 60°C and 3wt% catalyst load. Increasing the the ratio of methanol to oil to an ideal value of 15:1 and extending the duration to 5hrs improved up to 30% FAME Yield. This experiment justified the prospective use of rubber shells in the production of sustainable biodiesel in the synthesization of carbon-based catalyst.
