Open AccessRole of Co-Solvent in the Super Critical Esterification process of Bio-Diesel Production through Karanja oil
Author(s) -
Chandra Shekhar Singh,
Naveen Kumar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1240/1/012159
Subject(s) - diesel fuel , supercritical fluid , pulp and paper industry , biofuel , environmental science , pongamia , biodiesel , methanol , process engineering , waste management , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry , catalysis
Biofuel is necessity for the today’s era for developing country like India to fulfil its growing energy demand and concern towards the environment pollution. Bio fuel production involve following major steps such as preparation of feed stock, selection of conversion technology and the up-gradation techniques. Conventional method of bio diesel production is of time consuming and sensitive to the feed stock quality. And due to these limitations in conventional esterification processes, Supercritical Esterification has now become one of the most attractive conversion technologies for bio diesel production due to its flexibility towards the feed stock quality, high conversion rate and fast reaction time. Although, it is costlier process as compare to the conventional processes because of its extreme condition of pressure and temperature requirement. So in the present study, the Super Critical Trans-esterification of Karanja (Pongamia Pinnata) oil with Methanol is investigated. And the effect of co-solvent on the reaction condition is studied. It has been observed from the results that use of co-solvent could be a potential means to reduce the critical condition required in the Super Critical Esterification process for the bio diesel production.