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Waste Manag
; 78: 929-937, 2018 Aug.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32559988
RESUMEN
In this study, solid coconut waste and CaO/PVA was used as raw material and catalyst respectively to produce biodiesel through in situ transesterification. Both, raw material and catalyst were packed in a packed bed reactor. The reaction was fixed for 3â¯h and the mixing was kept constant at 350â¯rpm. The highest biodiesel yield of 95% was obtained at reaction temperature of 61⯰C with catalyst loading (CaO/PVA) of 2.29â¯wt% and methanol to solid ratio of 12:1. CaO-waste derived catalyst has been successfully proven to be utilized as heterogeneous base catalyst for the production of biodiesel from solid coconut waste.