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TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-Stage Conversion of Used Cooking Oil to Biodiesel Using Ion Exchange Resins as Catalysts
AU - Mohammed, Misbahu
AU - Abidin , Sumaiya Zainal
AU - Saha, Basu
PY - 2023/8/14
Y1 - 2023/8/14
N2 - This study focuses on the development of a novel two-stage (esterification–-transesterification) synthesis of biodiesel from used cooking oil (UCO) using ion exchange resins as catalysts. Ester-ification of the UCO has been conducted using various types of ion exchange resin catalysts. Purolite D5081, a hyper cross-linked resin, showed the best catalytic performance among all the catalysts investigated, with 92% of free fatty acid (FFA) conversion. The transesterification of pre-treated used cooking oil (P-UCO) was carried out sequentially using several acidic and basic ion exchange resin catalysts. In the screening process, the Diaion PA306s catalyst showed the best catalytic performance and was selected for the optimisation study. A tTriglycerides conversion of ca. 75% was recorded at the optimum reaction conditions (9% (w/w) catalyst loading, 328 K reac-tion temperature, 18:1 methanol to P-UCO feed mole ratio, and 350 rpm stirring speed). Fur-thermore, the reusability study of the Diaion PA306s catalyst gave a similar triglycerides conver-sion after a couple of cycles without losing its catalytic activity. A dry purification technique was found to give the lowest percentage of glycerides and glycerine content and, therefore, was chosen as the best biodiesel purification route.
AB - This study focuses on the development of a novel two-stage (esterification–-transesterification) synthesis of biodiesel from used cooking oil (UCO) using ion exchange resins as catalysts. Ester-ification of the UCO has been conducted using various types of ion exchange resin catalysts. Purolite D5081, a hyper cross-linked resin, showed the best catalytic performance among all the catalysts investigated, with 92% of free fatty acid (FFA) conversion. The transesterification of pre-treated used cooking oil (P-UCO) was carried out sequentially using several acidic and basic ion exchange resin catalysts. In the screening process, the Diaion PA306s catalyst showed the best catalytic performance and was selected for the optimisation study. A tTriglycerides conversion of ca. 75% was recorded at the optimum reaction conditions (9% (w/w) catalyst loading, 328 K reac-tion temperature, 18:1 methanol to P-UCO feed mole ratio, and 350 rpm stirring speed). Fur-thermore, the reusability study of the Diaion PA306s catalyst gave a similar triglycerides conver-sion after a couple of cycles without losing its catalytic activity. A dry purification technique was found to give the lowest percentage of glycerides and glycerine content and, therefore, was chosen as the best biodiesel purification route.
KW - biodiesel
KW - esterification
KW - transesterification
KW - free fatty acids
KW - ion exchange resins
KW - heterogeneous catalyst
U2 - 10.3390/catal13081209
DO - 10.3390/catal13081209
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Catalysts
JF - Catalysts
SN - 2073-4344
IS - 8
M1 - 1209
ER -