Musa acuminata peel: A bioresource for bio-oil and by-product utilization as a sustainable source of renewable green catalyst for biodiesel production

Niran Daimary, Pankaj Boruah, Khalifa S.H. Eldiehy, Tapan Pegu, Pritam Bardhan, Utpal Bora, Manabendra Mandal and Dhanapati Deka

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 187, issue C, 450-462

Abstract: This study emphasizes the vision of a green, renewable and sustainable integrated route for the catalyst synthesis process and to transform fruit and kitchen wastes into fuel. The alkali and alkaline earth metal-rich biochar, a by-product obtained from banana peel thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis), was calcined and utilized as a catalyst for converting soybean waste cooking oil (SWCO) to biodiesel. The catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The synthesized catalyst showed a high catalytic activity due to the abundance of potassium in oxide and carbonate form. Under the optimized condition: Catalyst loading of 1.5 wt%, time of 2 h, the temperature of 60 °C, and at 9:1 methanol to oil ratio, the conversion of SWCO to biodiesel was 98.0% with BPBC (Banana peel pyrolyzed calcined biochar catalyst). The integrated catalyst synthesizing method helped to transform the fruit waste to biochar and bio-oil, which have the property of fuel and platform chemicals. Additionally, as the catalyst was synthesized from biomass, it is more eco-friendly, recyclable, and sustainable.

Keywords: Heterogeneous catalyst; Bio-oil; Biodiesel; Fruit waste; Biochar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.01.054

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