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Monday and Akhihiero · Vol. 13 No. 2 · 2023
…de from eggshell makes it desirable as a heterogeneous catalyst for the production of biodiesel from waste oil. This study investigated the effect of modifying plain calcium oxide from chicken eggshells on the transesterification of waste vegetable oil to biod…
Anene and Ors · Vol. 13 No. 2 · 2023
…esis of a bifunctional heterogeneous solid catalyst to produce environmentally benign biodiesel from sesame seed oil. The heterogeneous solid catalyst was synthesized using periwinkle shell as support material while functionalization was carried out using nick…
· Vol. 14 No. 1 · 2024
Biodiesel quality and yield are affected by several processes. The study aimed to optimize the operating variables such as the effect of different zeolites, various concentrations of KOH support loaded during activation of zeolite, heterogeneous, and homogenou…
Obahiagbon et al. · Vol. 15 No. 2 · 2025
This study focused on enhancing the efficiency of biodiesel production from palm kernel oil (PKO) using a catalyst derived from a mixture of pig bone and cocoa pod doped with iron chloride and nickel nitrate. The catalyst was characterized using Brunauer-Emmet…
Obahiagbon et al. · Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2024
…es, in the simultaneous esterification and transesterification of Rubber seed oil for biodiesel production. Comprehensive characterization of the catalyst and its precursors assessed their structural, compositional, morphological, and thermal attributes. Emplo…
· Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2018
Biodiesel is produced by a chemical reaction known as transesterification in which a triglyceride reacts with a primary alcohol to give an alkyl ester Biodiesel and a byproduct Glycerol. The reaction is said to proceed to completion only when the primary alcoh…
Obahiagbon and Ahonkhai · Vol. 13 No. 2 · 2023
This study developed a catalyst from poultry droppings for the synthesis of biodiesel from waste cooking oil (WCO). Poultry droppings catalyst characterization was achieved using Brunauer-Emmett and Teller (BET) analysis, fourier transform infrared spectroscop…
Akhabue and Anor · Vol. 7 No. 2 · 2017
…c studies of the esterification of free fatty acid (FFA) of rubber seed oil (RSO) for biodiesel production was investigated in this work. Esterification of RSO was carried out in batch experiments using a 1 litre round bottom flask placed on a constant tempera…
Audu et al. · Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2018
…maximum conversion of the reactants to products and facilitate the separation of the biodiesel from the by-product glycerol. The transesterification is conducted at atmospheric pressure and a temperature slightly below the boiling point of the primary alcohol…
