Production of biodiesel using Nano Catalysts, Review study

  J B Galchar

Due to the limited conventional fossil fuels, it has become necessary to find alternative clean and renewable energy resources. Biodiesel may become the best solution for conventional fuels. Biodiesel is a liquid fuel consisting of mono alkyl esters (methyl or ethyl) of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats or micro and macro algal oil. It is a kind of bio- energy as a substitute for conventional petrol diesel fuel. Recently, the production of biodiesel has been increased due to some crucial reasons such as the rise in crude oil price, limited resources of fossil oil, and pollution reduction. This paper presents a review of the alternative technological methods that could be used to produce this fuel. Biodiesel production using nano catalyst is one of the approaches in the search of alternative fuel. Catalytic processes are used for biodiesel production. This nano catalyst are improved the production quality such as reduce reaction time and increase production yield. This present investigation, the nano particles were used as a nano catalyst for the production of biodiesel. This enhancement leads to reductions in reaction time, catalyst amount, alcohol-to-oil ratio and reaction temperature causing a significant decrease in the production economics.

Keywords- Biodiesel, Nano-catalyst, Transestrification, Methyl ester

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1701075
Page Number(s) - 485-488
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 1 | March 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  J B Galchar,   "Production of biodiesel using Nano Catalysts, Review study", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 1, pp.485-488, March 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1701075.pdf