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Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil

In this study, a high novelty bi-functional catalyst silicon carbide/sodium hydroxide-graphene oxide (Sic/NaOH-GO) was successfully developed and characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (F-TIR), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTA), N2 adsorption (BET), Scanning electron microsco...

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Main Author: LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2017
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TP Chemical technology
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.180842018-08-01T09:29:25Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18084/ Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN TP Chemical technology In this study, a high novelty bi-functional catalyst silicon carbide/sodium hydroxide-graphene oxide (Sic/NaOH-GO) was successfully developed and characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (F-TIR), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTA), N2 adsorption (BET), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The catalyst was applied on microalgae lipid that contains 26 % of free fatty acid (FFA) for biodiesel production under microwave irradiation. The effect of different reaction parameters such as catalyst loading, methanol to oil ratio, reaction temperature and reaction time were studied to optimize the reaction conditions. It was found that the optimum reaction conditions to attain 80.4 % of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) content was methanol to oil molar ratio of 48, reaction time 5 min, amount of catalyst 4 wt % and reaction temperature 85 ˚C. Apart from that, a kinetic model was developed for the transesterification reaction under microwave irradiation. The attained activation energy of the developed bi-functional catalyst was 30 KJ/mol, which was comparable to other heterogeneous and homogeneous reported in literature. IRC 2017-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18084/1/Dissertation_AdrianLoyChunMinh_19969.pdf LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN (2017) Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil. IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN
Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
description In this study, a high novelty bi-functional catalyst silicon carbide/sodium hydroxide-graphene oxide (Sic/NaOH-GO) was successfully developed and characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (F-TIR), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTA), N2 adsorption (BET), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The catalyst was applied on microalgae lipid that contains 26 % of free fatty acid (FFA) for biodiesel production under microwave irradiation. The effect of different reaction parameters such as catalyst loading, methanol to oil ratio, reaction temperature and reaction time were studied to optimize the reaction conditions. It was found that the optimum reaction conditions to attain 80.4 % of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) content was methanol to oil molar ratio of 48, reaction time 5 min, amount of catalyst 4 wt % and reaction temperature 85 ˚C. Apart from that, a kinetic model was developed for the transesterification reaction under microwave irradiation. The attained activation energy of the developed bi-functional catalyst was 30 KJ/mol, which was comparable to other heterogeneous and homogeneous reported in literature.
format Final Year Project
author LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN
author_facet LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN
author_sort LOY CHUN MINH, ADRIAN
title Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
title_short Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
title_full Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
title_fullStr Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
title_full_unstemmed Development of Bi-functional Graphene Based Catalyst for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae Oil
title_sort development of bi-functional graphene based catalyst for biodiesel production from microalgae oil
publisher IRC
publishDate 2017
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/18084/1/Dissertation_AdrianLoyChunMinh_19969.pdf
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