Intensification of biodiesel production from soybean oil and waste cooking oil in the presence of heterogeneous catalyst using high speed homogenizer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai 400019, India;2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, travessa 3, No. 380, São Paulo, SP 05508-010, Brazil;1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Fayoum University, Egypt;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Benha Faculty of Engineering, Benha University, 13512 Benha, Qalubia, Egypt;3. Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China;4. Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, Mansoura University, EL-Mansoura 35516, Egypt;1. Oil, Oleochemicals and Surfactant Department, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai 40019, India;2. Chemical Engineering Department, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai 40019, India |
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| Abstract: | In the present work, high speed homogenizer has been used for the intensification of biodiesel synthesis from soybean oil and waste cooking oil (WCO) used as a sustainable feedstock. High acid value waste cooking oil (27 mg of KOH/g of oil) was first esterified with methanol using sulphuric acid as catalyst in two stages to bring the acid value to desired value of 1.5 mg of KOH/g of oil. Transesterification of soybean oil (directly due to lower acid value) and esterified waste cooking oil was performed in the presence of heterogeneous catalyst (CaO) for the production of biodiesel. Various experiments were performed for understanding the effect of operating parameters viz. molar ratio, catalyst loading, reaction temperature and speed of rotation of the homogenizer. For soybean oil, the maximum biodiesel yield as 84% was obtained with catalyst loading of 3 wt% and molar ratio of oil to methanol of 1:10 at 50 °C with 12,000 rpm as the speed of rotation in 30 min. Similarly biodiesel yield of 88% was obtained from waste cooking oil under identical operating conditions except for the catalyst loading which was 1 wt%. Significant increase in the rate of biodiesel production with yields from soybean oil as 84% (in 30 min) and from WCO as 88% (30 min) was established due to the use of high speed homogenizer as compared to the conventional stirring method (requiring 2–3 h for obtaining similar biodiesel yield). The observed intensification was attributed to the turbulence caused at microscale and generation of fine emulsions due to the cavitational effects. Overall it can be concluded from this study that high speed homogenizer can be used as an alternate cavitating device to efficiently produce biodiesel in the presence of heterogeneous catalysts. |
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| Keywords: | High speed homogenizer Cavitating device Heterogeneous catalyst Biodiesel Sustainable feedstock |
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