Crab and cockle shells as heterogeneous catalysts in the production of biodiesel

In the present study, the waste crab and cockle shells were utilized as source of calcium oxide to transesterify palm olein into methyl esters (biodiesel). Characterization results revealed that the main component of the shells are calcium carbonate which transformed into calcium oxide upon activat...

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Principais autores: Maniam, Gaanty Pragas, Boey, Peng-Lim, Abd Hamid, Shafida
Formato: Proceeding Paper
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2010
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Acesso em linha:http://irep.iium.edu.my/8098/1/ICPE%25202010.pdf