Biodiesel production from palm olein: A sustainable bioresource for Nigeria

Dangerous environmental consequences and market unpredictability of fossil fuels have necessitated the need for sustainable large-scale production of biofuel in Nigeria. Unrefined palm oil (UPO) is a significant product of commercially available oil palm plants in the country. This study experimenta...

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Autores principales: Ishola, Felix, Adelekan, Damola, Mamudu, Angela, Abodunrin, Temitope, Aworinde, Abraham, Olatunji, Obafemi, Akinlabi, Stephen
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7160580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32322719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03725
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author Ishola, Felix
Adelekan, Damola
Mamudu, Angela
Abodunrin, Temitope
Aworinde, Abraham
Olatunji, Obafemi
Akinlabi, Stephen
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description Dangerous environmental consequences and market unpredictability of fossil fuels have necessitated the need for sustainable large-scale production of biofuel in Nigeria. Unrefined palm oil (UPO) is a significant product of commercially available oil palm plants in the country. This study experimentally investigates the production of biodiesel from refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palm olein extracted from UPO obtained from batch reactors. The transesterification process of the RBD palm olein with methanol and in the presence of potassium hydroxide (KOH) catalyst produced biodiesel with a 62.5% yield, thus confirming its feasibility for mass production. The derived biodiesel has properties equivalent to ASTM D792 standard for biodiesel fuels.
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spelling pubmed-71605802020-04-22 Biodiesel production from palm olein: A sustainable bioresource for Nigeria Ishola, Felix Adelekan, Damola Mamudu, Angela Abodunrin, Temitope Aworinde, Abraham Olatunji, Obafemi Akinlabi, Stephen Heliyon Article Dangerous environmental consequences and market unpredictability of fossil fuels have necessitated the need for sustainable large-scale production of biofuel in Nigeria. Unrefined palm oil (UPO) is a significant product of commercially available oil palm plants in the country. This study experimentally investigates the production of biodiesel from refined, bleached and deodorised (RBD) palm olein extracted from UPO obtained from batch reactors. The transesterification process of the RBD palm olein with methanol and in the presence of potassium hydroxide (KOH) catalyst produced biodiesel with a 62.5% yield, thus confirming its feasibility for mass production. The derived biodiesel has properties equivalent to ASTM D792 standard for biodiesel fuels. Elsevier 2020-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7160580/ /pubmed/32322719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03725 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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