RESEARCH ARTICLE
Utilization of Three Non-Edible Vegetable Oils for the Production of Biodiesel Catalysed by Enzyme
Sandip Kumar Haldar, Ahindra Nag*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 79
Last Page: 83
Publisher ID: TOCENGJ-2-79
DOI: 10.2174/1874123100802010079
Article History:
Received Date: 20/02/2008Revision Received Date: 01/04/2008
Acceptance Date: 13/04/2008
Electronic publication date: 6/6/2008
Collection year: 2008
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Abstract
Enzymatic transesterification by using lipase as catalyst has become more attractive for the production of biodiesel due to easy separation of products such as glycerol and fatty acid esters. Comparative studies of enzyme catalyzed transesterification of three less attended non edible oils (jatropha, karanja and putranjiva) have been discussed. The maximum yield has been obtained at 3:1 molar ratio of methanol and oil at 40°C and 8hrs reaction time. The percentage of conversion has been analyzed by Gas chromatography and 400 MHz 1H NMR. It has been observed that degummed vegetable oil gives higher conversion in transesterification reaction than straight vegetable oil. Secondary alcohol gives better result than methanol for the production of biodiesel due to its higher miscibility nature in oil.