Making biodiesel from coconut oil by reaction metanolisis heterogeneous catalyst

Awaluddin, Amir; Padil,; Wahyuningsih, Slamet

doi:10.1109/esd.2010.5598785

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“…Coconut is a tropical plant and is commonly found in the western part of Nigeria. Researchers have explored feedstocks such as soya bean in Brazil [15,16] and Jatropha in India [17] for biodiesel production. Few published works on the production and fuel characterization of biodiesel from coconut oil as alternative fuel have produced encouraging results [18,19,20].…”

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Optimisation of Alkaline Ethanolysis of Biodiesel Yield from Nigerian Coconut Oil using One Variable at a Time (OVAT) Approach

Samuel¹

2018

JENRM

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In this study, coconut (Cocos nucifera) oil has been identified as a feedstock for biodiesel production. The determination of optimal feedstocks ratio (of ethanol/coconut oil, v/v. % ratio) was studied. The reaction was executed at different ethanol/ coconut oil ratios: 10%, 15% 20%, 25% and 30% while the reaction time (60 min), reaction temperature (70 0 C) and 1.0% NaOH catalyst dosage were kept constant. The result indicated that maximum biodiesel yield (96.09%) was obtained at 20% of ethanol/coconut oil vol./vol.% ratio within transesterification reactions that were kept constant. The fuel characterization such as viscosity (4.32mm 2 /s), specific gravity (0.887), pour point (-18 0 C), cloud point (-12 0 C) and flash point (160 0 C) of the produced biodiesel at the optimized conditioned showed that the suitability of coconut ethyl ester (biodiesel) were within the international biodiesel standard.

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