Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages 266-271Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.09.087
Keywords
Biodiesel; Bifunctional catalyst; Ferric alginate; Aminotrimethylenephosphonic acid; Optimization
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, China [51102127, 51073075, 51373074]
- Program for Scientific research innovation team in Colleges and universities of Shandong Province, China
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Biodiesel production has become an intense research area because of rapidly depleting energy reserves and increasing petroleum prices together with environmental concerns. This paper focused on the optimization of the catalytic performance in the esterification reaction of oleic acid for biodiesel production over the bifunctional catalyst organotriphosphonic acid-functionalized ferric alginate ATMP-FA. The reaction parameters including catalyst amount, ethanol to oleic acid molar ratio and reaction temperature have been optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) using the Box-Behnken model. It was found that the reaction temperature was the most significant factor, and the best conversion ratio of oleic acid could reach 93.17% under the reaction conditions with 9.53% of catalyst amount and 8.62:1 of ethanol to oleic acid molar ratio at 91.0 degrees C. The research results show that two catalytic species could work cooperatively to promote the esterification reaction, and the bifunctional ATMP-FA is a potential catalyst for biodiesel production. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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