Highly efficient procedure for the transesterification of vegetable oil

Xuezheng Liang, Shan Gao, Jianguo Yang, Mingyuan He

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Abstract

The highly efficient procedure has been developed for the synthesis of biodiesel from vegetable oil and methanol. The KF/MgO has been selected as the most efficient catalyst for the reactions with the yield of 99.3%. Operational simplicity, without need of the purification of raw vegetable oil, low cost of the catalyst used, high activities, no saponification and reusability are the key features of this methodology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2215-2217
Number of pages3
JournalRenewable Energy
Volume34
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Biodiesel
  • Efficient
  • KF/MgO
  • Transesterification

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