Emerging technologies for biodiesel production: processes, challenges, and opportunities

AA Babadi, S Rahmati, R Fakhlaei, B Barati… - Biomass and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fossil fuel shortages, rising petroleum prices, worldwide demand for renewable energy, and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to anthropogenic activities are increasing interest in …

Widely used catalysts in biodiesel production: a review

B Changmai, C Vanlalveni, AP Ingle, R Bhagat… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
An ever-increasing energy demand and environmental problems associated with
exhaustible fossil fuels have led to the search for an alternative renewable source of energy …

Production of renewable biodiesel using metal organic frameworks based materials as efficient heterogeneous catalysts

SF Basumatary, K Patir, B Das, P Saikia… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodiesel has emerged as a versatile alternative to fossil-derived fuels which is a renewable
and eco-friendly. The reactions via which biodiesel is synthesized from oil feedstocks are …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiesel as renewable biofuel produced via enzyme-based catalyzed transesterification

P Kalita, B Basumatary, P Saikia, B Das, S Basumatary - Energy Nexus, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a renewable alternative biofuel to conventional fossil fuel. Biodiesel can be
produced through esterification and transesterification reactions mainly catalyzed by acid …

Metal–organic framework-based functional catalytic materials for biodiesel production: a review

WJ Cong, S Nanda, H Li, Z Fang, AK Dalai… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Biodiesel is a type of widely recognized environmentally friendly and sustainable biofuel.
The key point for the industrial manufacturing of biodiesel is its cost, especially the price of …

Guanidine post-functionalized crystalline ZIF-90 frameworks as a promising recyclable catalyst for the production of biodiesel via soybean oil transesterification

W Xie, F Wan - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
In the current research, a porous solid base catalyst (ZIF-90-Gua) was prepared through
covalent post-functionalization of zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-90 with organic …

Demystifying the enzymatic biodiesel: How lipases are contributing to its technological advances

JHC Wancura, M Brondani, MSN dos Santos… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The enzymatic route for preparing biodiesel mediated by lipases (EC 3.1. 1.3, triacylglycerol
ester hydrolases) constitutes one of the main alternatives for biofuel synthesis. The …

Magnetically recoverable Mg substituted zinc ferrite nanocatalyst for biodiesel production: Process optimization, kinetic and thermodynamic analysis

A Ashok, T Ratnaji, LJ Kennedy, JJ Vijaya… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of this work is to develop a magnetically recoverable magnesium substituted
zinc ferrite nanocatalysts for production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil. Microwave …

Biodiesel production by direct transesterification of wet spent coffee grounds using switchable solvent as a catalyst and solvent

HC Nguyen, ML Nguyen, FM Wang, HY Juan… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spent coffee grounds (SCGs) are a promising material for sustainable preparation of
biodiesel. This study proposed a new approach for biodiesel synthesis from wet SCGs using …

Lipases in liquid formulation for biodiesel production: Current status and challenges

JH C. Wancura, MV Tres, SL Jahn… - Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymatic synthesis of biodiesel showed advantageous characteristics in relation to other
technologies once it works under bland conditions, no generation of wastewater, no …