Solar-heated sustainable biodiesel production from waste cooking oil using a sonochemically deposited SrO catalyst on microporous activated carbon

B Tabah, AP Nagvenkar, N Perkas, A Gedanken - Energy & Fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
A novel catalyst, SrO on microporous activated carbon (SrO/C), was synthesized by
sonochemical deposition of SrO on carbon. The SrO/C demonstrated high catalytic …

Selectively biorefining astaxanthin and triacylglycerol co-products from microalgae with supercritical carbon dioxide extraction

TA Kwan, SE Kwan, J Peccia, JB Zimmerman - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Clustering behavior of supercritical carbon dioxide, triacylglycerides, and astaxanthin
solutes were analyzed using Kamlet-Taft solvatochromic properties of …

Cold flow properties of fatty acid methyl ester blends with and without triacetin

RC Elias, M Senra, L Soh - Energy & Fuels, 2016 - ACS Publications
Optimizing the cold flow properties of biodiesel is pertinent to its applicability as an
alternative to conventional petrodiesel products. This work provides a systematic study of …

Supercritical CO2 as solvent for fatty acids esterification with ethanol catalyzed by Amberlyst-15

DT Melfi, KC dos Santos, LP Ramos… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work reports on the esterification of fatty acids with ethanol using Amberlyst-15 in a
scCO 2-assisted system. A factorial design was carried out for the following process …

CO2 process intensification of algae oil extraction to biodiesel

G Yadav, LA Fabiano, L Soh, J Zimmerman… - AIChE …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Algae‐to‐biodiesel processes are hindered by high costs and low energy return on
investment. 1, 2. Herein, three foci in research improve algae‐to‐biodiesel processes by:(1) …

Phase equilibria of triolein to biodiesel reactor systems

C Silva, L Soh, A Barberio, J Zimmerman… - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2016 - Elsevier
The phase equilibria of biodiesel systems, which are comprised of mixtures of triolein,
methanol, carbon dioxide, methyl-oleate, glycerol, and water, are analyzed using PC-SAFT …

Kinetic Modeling of scCO2-Assisted Levulinic Acid Esterification with Ethanol Using Amberlyst-15 as a Catalyst in a Batch Reactor

DT Melfi, MK Lenzi, LP Ramos, ML Corazza - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ethyl levulinate has shown great potential as a green fuel additive for gasoline, diesel, and
biodiesel. One alternative for its synthesis is the direct heterogeneously catalyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of biobased heterogeneous solid Brønsted acid catalysts and their application on the synthesis of liquid biofuel 5-ethoxymethylfurfural from …

Y Wen, Z Yu, K Li, H Guo, Y Dai, L Yan - Green Energy & Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
A series of biobased heterogeneous solid Brønsted acid catalysts with perfect spherical
microstructures are successfully fabricated directly from waste Camellia oleifera shells by a …

Pillaring of bentonite clay with Zr, Ti, and Ti/Zr by ultrasonic technique for biodiesel production

E Agustian, AL Juwono, N Rinaldi… - South African Journal of …, 2023 - journals.co.za
The current study concentrated on employing metal pillared bentonite catalysts to transform
waste cooking oil. The goal of this research was to create pillared bentonite catalyst for …

Effect of ultrasonic treatment on the preparation of zirconia pillared bentonite as a catalyst

E Agustian, A Rachmawati, NDE Purba… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Bentonite is material from soil and has unique properties. Because of these properties,
bentonite has been exploited widely for different utilization. Bentonite has a simple structure …