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Improving Biodiesel Quality and Productivity from Egyptian Castor by Studying Optimization Factors

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Biochemistry

Abstract

A main reason for Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions is petroleum-based fuel, burning those types of fuels produces carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide which harms both environment & human's health, in addition to the great drop in petroleum sources' quantities recently and the continuous increase in its price leading to products raise in price, all that opened the door for new generation of fuel derived from natural origins such as biofuels. Biodiesel has shown a great performance in combustion engines as a clean alternative to petroleum-based diesel. Biodiesel can be derived from plant-based oil, or animal fat-based oil. Castor seed which is considered as a waste in Egypt and as an oil rich source is considered as a valuable source for bio diesel in Egypt. This study motivated enhancing the efficiency of biodiesel generation from castor oil by employing the Response Surface Methodology. Three variables were studied : temperature, reaction time, and methanol concentration. The optimization aims to identify the optimal conditions to maximize biodiesel production with effective conversion efficiency. The optimization revealed that maintaining a temperature of 40 oC for 60 minutes, with a 1% KOH catalyst and 20% methanol by weight, resulted in the highest yield of biodiesel at 90.859% and a conversion efficiency of 82.04%. Quality assessment through thin-layer chromatography and physical property analysis of the refined methyl ester demonstrated compliance with or superiority over ASTM biodiesel standards.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.278789.9500

Keywords

Biodiesel, transesterification, Conversion, Biodiesel Quality, Castor oil, Response surface methodology, Optimization

Authors

First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Mustafa

MiddleName

M. M.

Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering and Renewable Energy Research Institute, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt.

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hassanabuhashish@gmail.com

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Dokki

Orcid

0000-0002-1854-0481

First Name

R.

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

re7abmetwally@yahoo.com

City

Suez

Orcid

0000-0003-3987-1420

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdelsadak

MiddleName

Yasser

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

mohamedyasser112001m@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0001-0001-2001-0000

First Name

Zeyad

Last Name

Gouda

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

zeyad.amr.gouda65@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0007-0022-1009-0612

First Name

M.

Last Name

Mokhtar

MiddleName

Magdy

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

mohamedmagdy3332000@gmail.com

City

suez

Orcid

0000-0017-0024-0006

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

M.

MiddleName

Mostafa

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

ahmed.1mostafa12@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ghareb

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

mohamed63ahmed49@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Adham

Last Name

E.

MiddleName

Hossam

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

adhamhossam652@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Omar

Last Name

S.

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering, Canal High institute of Engineering and Technology in Suez, Suez, Egypt.

Email

om72933@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sherihan

Last Name

El-Hadidy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Basic Sciences Department, Canal High Institute of Engineering and Technology, Suez, Egypt.

Email

sherihanelhadidy@gmail.com

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-

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-

Volume

67

Article Issue

11

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50157

Issue Date

2024-11-01

Receive Date

2024-04-07

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

425

Page End

432

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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EJCHEM_Volume 67_Issue 11_Pages 425-432.pdf

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Improving Biodiesel Quality and Productivity from Egyptian Castor by Studying Optimization Factors

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Created At

30 Dec 2024