Synthesis and characterization of solid heterogeneous catalyst for the production of biodiesel from high FFA waste cooking oil

Abstract

Biodiesel is currently recognized as one of the most promising biofuel alternatives to conventional fossil fuel, considering its number of advantages particularly environmental benign and availability of feedstocks. In this work, newly d synthesized and applied for biodiesel production from high FFA waste cooking oil in a single step reaction process. The newly synthesized catalyst was further characterised by various techniques. Biodiesel yield of 94.1% wa methanol to oil molar ratio, 2wt% catalyst loading, 80 reaction time. The catalyst maintained 79.3% biodiesel yield after five successive reused without regeneration of the catalyst active sites.