Open AccessEpoxidation of waste cooking oil using catalytic in situ generated performic acid
Author(s) -
Muhamad Sulaim Abd Rahman,
Mohd Jumain Jalil,
M Muain,
V Gloria,
Intan Suhada Azmi,
Abdul Hâdi,
Aliff Farhan Mohd Yamin,
Norhashimah Morad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/476/1/012143
Subject(s) - performic acid , epoxide , chemistry , oleic acid , formic acid , organic chemistry , catalysis , tall oil , double bond , epoxy , hydrogen peroxide , biochemistry
Nowadays, utilizing renewable resources is one of the top research interests among researchers around the world in order to maintain the synthesis of products based on chemicals. Oleic acid (C18:1) derived from palm oil contains the unsaturated double bond (C=C) in its long alkyl chain makes it an attractive fatty acid for the production of eco-friendly epoxide. The epoxidation of waste cooking oil was carried out by using in situ generated performic acid (HCOOOH) to produce epoxidized oleic acid. Epoxy ring-opening also known as epoxide cleavage or epoxide ring degradation occurs in the epoxidation of vegetable oils. It is imperative to minimize process losses via ring-opening in order to achieve good yields and high peroxide values of the epoxidized vegetable oil. In this study, we analysed the effect of agitation speed, the effect of molar ratio of the formic acid to waste cooking oil and the effect of hydrogen peroxide to waste cooking oil molar ratio to epoxidation waste cooking oil.