Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels

Price fluctuation of petroleum-based diesel, climate change, emerging mandate obligations, availability of new feedstock and the upgrading of conversion technologies are expected to drive biodiesel market to grow robustly in the next coming 10 years. However, the current bottleneck in biodiesel prod...

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Main Authors: Lee, Hwei Voon, Juan, Joon Ching, Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin, Kong, Pei San, Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2015
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43670/1/Advancement%20in%20heterogeneous%20base%20catalyzed%20technology.pdf
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author Lee, Hwei Voon
Juan, Joon Ching
Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin
Kong, Pei San
Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah
author_facet Lee, Hwei Voon
Juan, Joon Ching
Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin
Kong, Pei San
Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah
author_sort Lee, Hwei Voon
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description Price fluctuation of petroleum-based diesel, climate change, emerging mandate obligations, availability of new feedstock and the upgrading of conversion technologies are expected to drive biodiesel market to grow robustly in the next coming 10 years. However, the current bottleneck in biodiesel production is the lack of economical sustainable conversion technologies. Generally, industrial production of biodiesel is greatly relied on alkaline homogeneous transesterification reaction. Limitation of the technology, such as multistep process which incur extra pre-step for high acid oil treatment and post-step for biodiesel purification and alkali washing as diminished the economic feasibility and low environmental impact of the entire biodiesel process. Heterogeneous catalysis offers immense potential to develop simple transesterification process, including one step reaction, easy separation, reusability of catalyst, and green reaction. Thus, the aim of this paper is to review the biodiesel production technologies such as blending, micro-emulsion, pyrolysis, and transesterification. Furthermore, recent studies on heterogeneous catalyzed transesterification were presented by discussing the issues such as catalytic performance on different types of biodiesel feedstock, transesterification reaction conditions, limitations encountered by heterogeneous catalysts, and reusability of solid catalysts. The heterogeneous catalysts presented in this review is mainly focused on solid base catalysts, which include single metal oxides, supported metal oxide, binary metal oxide, hydrotalcite, and natural waste shell-based catalyst. Furthermore, current perspectives on application of heterogeneous catalyzed technology in biodiesel industry were discussed herein.
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spelling upm.eprints-436702016-11-28T09:10:28Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43670/ Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels Lee, Hwei Voon Juan, Joon Ching Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin Kong, Pei San Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah Price fluctuation of petroleum-based diesel, climate change, emerging mandate obligations, availability of new feedstock and the upgrading of conversion technologies are expected to drive biodiesel market to grow robustly in the next coming 10 years. However, the current bottleneck in biodiesel production is the lack of economical sustainable conversion technologies. Generally, industrial production of biodiesel is greatly relied on alkaline homogeneous transesterification reaction. Limitation of the technology, such as multistep process which incur extra pre-step for high acid oil treatment and post-step for biodiesel purification and alkali washing as diminished the economic feasibility and low environmental impact of the entire biodiesel process. Heterogeneous catalysis offers immense potential to develop simple transesterification process, including one step reaction, easy separation, reusability of catalyst, and green reaction. Thus, the aim of this paper is to review the biodiesel production technologies such as blending, micro-emulsion, pyrolysis, and transesterification. Furthermore, recent studies on heterogeneous catalyzed transesterification were presented by discussing the issues such as catalytic performance on different types of biodiesel feedstock, transesterification reaction conditions, limitations encountered by heterogeneous catalysts, and reusability of solid catalysts. The heterogeneous catalysts presented in this review is mainly focused on solid base catalysts, which include single metal oxides, supported metal oxide, binary metal oxide, hydrotalcite, and natural waste shell-based catalyst. Furthermore, current perspectives on application of heterogeneous catalyzed technology in biodiesel industry were discussed herein. AIP Publishing LLC 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43670/1/Advancement%20in%20heterogeneous%20base%20catalyzed%20technology.pdf Lee, Hwei Voon and Juan, Joon Ching and Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin and Kong, Pei San and Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah (2015) Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 7 (3). art. no. 032701. ISSN 1941-7012 10.1063/1.4919082
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Juan, Joon Ching
Yap, Taufiq Yun Hin
Kong, Pei San
Abd Rahman, Noorsaadah
Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title_full Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title_fullStr Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title_full_unstemmed Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title_short Advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology: an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
title_sort advancement in heterogeneous base catalyzed technology an efficient production of biodiesel fuels
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43670/1/Advancement%20in%20heterogeneous%20base%20catalyzed%20technology.pdf
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