Orege, Joshua Iseoluwa published the artcileEffect of alkaline pretreatment on the properties of Nigerian castor seed (Ricinus communis L.) oil and biodiesel produced thereof, Quality Control of 929-77-1, the main research area is castor seed oil biodiesel alk pretreatment physicochem property Nigeria.
This work focuses on production of biodiesel from natural and refined castor seed oil. Oil was extracted with normal-hexane solvent at 60°C using Soxhlet apparatus and pretreated by alk. refining process before transesterification with methanolic potassium hydroxide solution as catalyst. The effect of alk. refining on the oil characteristics and biodiesel quality parameters was investigated using standard test methods and fatty acid Me ester was characterized using gas chromatog. Results revealed that alk. refining had significant improvement on the oil and biodiesel characteristics. Yield of 43.9 and 46.2% were obtained for refined and unrefined castor oil resp. while biodiesel yield from refined and unrefined castor oil was 43.5 and 41.7% resp. Ricinoleic acid (84.9%) was prevalent in the oil with lignoceric (0.03%) as the smallest. The conformity of refined castor oil biodiesel with EN 14214, ASTM and India biodiesel standards makes it viable economically in Nigeria.
Oriental Journal of Chemistry published new progress about Biodiesel fuel. 929-77-1 belongs to class esters-buliding-blocks, name is Methyl docosanoate, and the molecular formula is C23H46O2, Quality Control of 929-77-1.
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