Open AccessProduction of environment friendly diesel fuel from sunflower oil over Iraqi limestone synthesized catalyst
Author(s) -
Amir Saeed,
Farah T. Al-Sudani
Publication year - 2020
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/737/1/012203
Subject(s) - calcination , catalysis , diesel fuel , raw material , methanol , environmentally friendly , sunflower oil , fuel oil , materials science , chemical engineering , nuclear chemistry , waste management , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , ecology , biochemistry , biology
An environment friendly diesel fuel with remarkable characteristics that is basically methyl esters was synthesized from the reaction of sunflower oil (tri-glycerides) with methanol in a batch reactor using a heterogeneous catalyst with a conversion of 94% and very favorable characteristics. The heterogeneous catalyst used in this research was in the form of fine powder and synthesized from Iraqi limestone through calcination at 900 °C for 2.5 h under air. The raw limestone synthesized catalyst was characterized by XRD, SEM, EDX and BET analysis.