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Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)

Biodiesel from waste cooking oil is a renewable fuel that can be derived from waste cooking oil through transesterification process. However, it is learned that most of the waste cooking oil contains high level of FFA which may lead to saponification during the transesterification process. Moreover,...

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Main Author: Pravin Rao Prakash Rao
Format: text::Final Year Project
Language:English US
Published: 2023
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Glycerin
Biodiesel fuels
Oils and fats
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spelling my.uniten.dspace-286622023-11-19T02:00:37Z Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO) Pravin Rao Prakash Rao Glycerin Biodiesel fuels Oils and fats Biodiesel from waste cooking oil is a renewable fuel that can be derived from waste cooking oil through transesterification process. However, it is learned that most of the waste cooking oil contains high level of FFA which may lead to saponification during the transesterification process. Moreover, consumption of catalyst in biodiesel production results in higher production cost and separation of liquid state catalyst requires higher time consumption. Therefore, in this research a pre-treatment method with absence of catalyst has been proposed in order to reduce the overall production cost and time consumption. The technical approach was performed in 4 sections, which are (1) design amnd development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor (2) preliminary experiment (3) waste cooking oil pre-heating (4) microwave assisted glycerolysis reaction with absence of catalyst. Firstly, few concept designs of reactor were generated and evaluated using Pugh Matrix based on selected design criteria. The best concept design that identified was then developed into a prototype. Besides that, preliminary experiment was conducted to identify the microwave power levels to conduct glycerolysis reaction. 2023-11-17T07:45:45Z 2023-11-17T07:45:45Z 2019 Resource Types::text::Final Year Project https://irepository.uniten.edu.my/handle/123456789/28662 en_US application/pdf
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topic Glycerin
Biodiesel fuels
Oils and fats
spellingShingle Glycerin
Biodiesel fuels
Oils and fats
Pravin Rao Prakash Rao
Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
description Biodiesel from waste cooking oil is a renewable fuel that can be derived from waste cooking oil through transesterification process. However, it is learned that most of the waste cooking oil contains high level of FFA which may lead to saponification during the transesterification process. Moreover, consumption of catalyst in biodiesel production results in higher production cost and separation of liquid state catalyst requires higher time consumption. Therefore, in this research a pre-treatment method with absence of catalyst has been proposed in order to reduce the overall production cost and time consumption. The technical approach was performed in 4 sections, which are (1) design amnd development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor (2) preliminary experiment (3) waste cooking oil pre-heating (4) microwave assisted glycerolysis reaction with absence of catalyst. Firstly, few concept designs of reactor were generated and evaluated using Pugh Matrix based on selected design criteria. The best concept design that identified was then developed into a prototype. Besides that, preliminary experiment was conducted to identify the microwave power levels to conduct glycerolysis reaction.
format Resource Types::text::Final Year Project
author Pravin Rao Prakash Rao
author_facet Pravin Rao Prakash Rao
author_sort Pravin Rao Prakash Rao
title Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_short Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_full Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_fullStr Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_full_unstemmed Design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_sort design and development of laboratory scale microwave assisted glycerolysis reactor to perform glycerolysis reaction for waste cooking oil (wco)
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