Biodiesel production from used vegetable oil (sunflower cooking oil) using eggshell as bio catalyst

• Main Authors: Marwan Hussien, Hayder Abdul hameed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Baghdad/College of Engineering 2019-12-01
• Series: Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
• Subjects: Biodiesel, Waste cooking oil, Transesterification, Methyl esters; Renewable energy, Diesel, waste vegetable oil
• Online Access: http://ijcpe.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/ijcpe/article/view/770

Bio-diesel is an attractive fuel fordiesel engines. The feedstock for bio-diesel production is usually vegetable oil, waste cooking oil, or animal fats. This work provides an overview concerning bio-diesel production. Also, this work focuses on the commercial production of biodiesel. The objective is to study the influence of these parameters on the yield of produced. The biodiesel production affecting by many parameters such s alcohol ratio (5%, 10%,15 %, 20%,25%,30%35% vol.), catalyst loading (5,10,15,20,25) g,temperature (45,50,55,60,65,70,75)°C,reaction time (0-6) h, mixing rate (400-1000) rpm. the maximum bio-diesel production yield (95%) was obtained using 20% methanol ratio and 15g biocatalyst at 60°C.