TY - JOUR
T1 - Biodiesel production over a catalyst prepared from biomass-derived waste date pits
AU - Al-Muhtaseb, Ala'a H.
AU - Jamil, Farrukh
AU - Al-Haj, Lamya
AU - Zar Myint, Myo Tay
AU - Mahmoud, Eyas
AU - Ahmad, Mohammad N.M.
AU - Hasan, Ahmad O.
AU - Rafiq, Sikander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Date palms are predominately produced in arid regions and the date pits, or seeds, produced from them are sometimes considered to be a waste. Date pits, ground to powder following an oil extraction, were used to synthesize a renewable heterogeneous catalyst. The green carbon catalyst was modified by an alkaline earth metal oxide (CaO). The oil extracted from date pits was transformed into biodiesel. The biodiesel process was optimized and the optimal yield was 98.2 wt% at a reaction temperature of 70 °C, reaction time ∼120 min, methanol to oil molar ratio of 12 and catalyst loading of 4.5 wt%. The quality of the produced biodiesel meets the standard limits set by regulating agencies (ASTM, EU) which indicates its suitability to be used as a fuel. Thus, it can be concluded that the green carbon catalyst synthesized from waste date pits has a high potential for biodiesel production.
AB - Date palms are predominately produced in arid regions and the date pits, or seeds, produced from them are sometimes considered to be a waste. Date pits, ground to powder following an oil extraction, were used to synthesize a renewable heterogeneous catalyst. The green carbon catalyst was modified by an alkaline earth metal oxide (CaO). The oil extracted from date pits was transformed into biodiesel. The biodiesel process was optimized and the optimal yield was 98.2 wt% at a reaction temperature of 70 °C, reaction time ∼120 min, methanol to oil molar ratio of 12 and catalyst loading of 4.5 wt%. The quality of the produced biodiesel meets the standard limits set by regulating agencies (ASTM, EU) which indicates its suitability to be used as a fuel. Thus, it can be concluded that the green carbon catalyst synthesized from waste date pits has a high potential for biodiesel production.
KW - Alkaline earth metal oxide
KW - Biodiesel
KW - Biomass-derived fuel
KW - Green catalyst
KW - Waste date biomass
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U2 - 10.1016/j.btre.2018.e00284
DO - 10.1016/j.btre.2018.e00284
M3 - Article
C2 - 30338229
AN - SCOPUS:85054578613
SN - 2215-017X
VL - 20
JO - Biotechnology Reports
JF - Biotechnology Reports
M1 - e00284
ER -
