Open AccessResponse Surface Methodology based Prediction of Biodiesel Production from Sardine Fish oil Methyl Ester using Microwave Assisted Transesterification Method
Author(s) -
M. Venkatesan,
S. Chandra Sekhar,
Ravishankar Sathyamurthy,
K. Sathiyamoorthy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1145/1/012071
Subject(s) - sardine , transesterification , response surface methodology , biodiesel , catalysis , biodiesel production , fish oil , diesel fuel , molar ratio , materials science , reaction conditions , microwave , chemistry , chemical engineering , fish <actinopterygii> , organic chemistry , chromatography , fishery , computer science , telecommunications , engineering , biology
The demonstration of producing biodiesel from fish oil using microwave with considerable reduction in the amount of catalyst used during the reaction and time of reaction is presented in this study. The various parameters such as microwave power, concentration of catalyst, reaction time and molar ratio were experimentally investigated. The reaction parameters were optimized by response surface method. Molar ratio, catalyst concentration, reaction time were chosen as reaction parameters with four levels. The results from RSM model indicate that molar ratio is having the significant contribution in transesterification of fish oil to bio diesel. To confirm the results obtained confirmative experiments were done and proved to be worthy.