 Development of heterogeneous alkali catalyst from waste chicken eggshell for biodiesel productionJibril Goli and Omprakash Sahu Renewable Energy, 2018, vol. 128, issue PA, 142-154 Abstract: In this research work, heterogeneous alkali catalyst was derived from low-cost chicken eggshell waste. Among the catalyst synthesis route, calcinations method was used to decompose the calcium carbonate present in the waste. The synthesized catalyst was characterized by TGA/DTA, powder XRD, XRF, FT-IR, and SEM analytical instrument. In an effort to optimize the reaction condition of biodiesel production from soybean oil, a response surface methodology-Box-Behnken method was used. The maximum biodiesel yield of 93% and 92.32%; experimental and predicted respectively was obtained at a reaction temperature of 57.5 °C, reaction time of 3 h, methanol to oil molar ratio of 10:1, catalyst concentration of 7 wt%. The experiment was carried out in the three-necked batch-glass reactor at atmospheric pressure. Finally, the fuel properties of obtained biodiesel were measured and were all in the standard range. Keywords: Alkali catalyst; Calcium oxide; Eggshell; Process optimization; Transesterification (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:128:y:2018:i:pa:p:142-154 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.048 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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