Role of Co-Solvent in the Super Critical Esterification process of Bio-Diesel Production through Karanja oil

Biofuel is necessity for the today's era for developing country like India to fulfil its growing energy demand and concern towards the environment pollution. Bio fuel production involve following major steps such as preparation of feed stock, selection of conversion technology and the up-gradat...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1240; no. 1; pp. 12159 - 12166
Main Authors Shekhar Singh, Chandra, Kumar, Naveen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.07.2019
Subjects
Biofuels
Conversion
Critical Point
Developing countries
Diesel fuels
Environment pollution
Esterification
Fuel production
LDCs
Raw materials
Reaction time
Solvent
Solvents
Trans-esterification
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Summary:Biofuel is necessity for the today's era for developing country like India to fulfil its growing energy demand and concern towards the environment pollution. Bio fuel production involve following major steps such as preparation of feed stock, selection of conversion technology and the up-gradation techniques. Conventional method of bio diesel production is of time consuming and sensitive to the feed stock quality. And due to these limitations in conventional esterification processes, Supercritical Esterification has now become one of the most attractive conversion technologies for bio diesel production due to its flexibility towards the feed stock quality, high conversion rate and fast reaction time. Although, it is costlier process as compare to the conventional processes because of its extreme condition of pressure and temperature requirement. So in the present study, the Super Critical Trans-esterification of Karanja (Pongamia Pinnata) oil with Methanol is investigated. And the effect of co-solvent on the reaction condition is studied. It has been observed from the results that use of co-solvent could be a potential means to reduce the critical condition required in the Super Critical Esterification process for the bio diesel production.
ISSN:1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/1240/1/012159