Yadav, Meena published the artcileTransesterification of used vegetable oil using BaAl2O4 spinel as heterogeneous base catalyst, Application of Methyl docosanoate, the main research area is barium aluminum oxide vegetable oil transesterification heterogeneous catalyst.
Present study aim to synthesize biodiesel using a heterogeneous base catalyst, barium aluminate (BaAl2O4) and used vegetable oil (UVO) feedstock via transesterification reaction. The catalyst was synthesized using co-precipitation route and characterized using techniques TG-DT anal., XRD, FTIR, HRSEM-EDX, textural properties, and basicity. The best exptl. condition of transesterification reaction was found at methanol to oil molar ratio 21:1, catalyst dose 4 wt%, reaction temperature of 65 ± 0.5°C for 150 min of reaction duration and 600 rpm stirring rate which resulted in 93.28% conversion of Me ester. Five cycle reusability of the synthesized catalyst after high-temperature regeneration was also investigated at optimized reaction conditions. Moreover, kinetics and thermodn. studies of biodiesel synthesis reaction were also studied and Ea = 61.48 kJ/mol, A = 5.95 × 107 min-1, ΔH = 55.873 kJ mol-1, ΔS = -0.136 kJ mol-1 K-1, and ΔG (at 338 K) = 101.847 kJ mol-1 were obtained resp. The important fuel properties such as acid value, d., kinematic viscosity (40°C) calorific value, flash point, fire point, cloud point, pour point, and cetane number of synthesized biodiesel were analyzed and found satisfactory with ASTM D 6751 specifications. In addition, the green chem. matrix E-factor and PMI values were also formulated.
Energy Conversion and Management 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, Application of Methyl docosanoate.
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