Methanolysis of Jatropha curcas Oil for Biodiesel Production

作者：Sahu Gajanan; Saha S; Maity Sudip; Sen Raja; Datta S; Chavan Prakash; Sharma B K; Naik S N^*

来源：Asian Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 23(8): 3420-3424.

• Methanolysis
• Transesterification
• Jatropha curcas oil
• KNO(3)/Al(2)O(3) catalyst

The transesterification of jatropha oil with methanol to methyl ester was carried out using KNO(3)/Al(2)O(3) as a solid base catalyst. It was found that the catalyst with 35 % KNO(3) loading and calcined at 773 K showed the optimum condition. When the transesterification was carried out at 70 degrees C, with a 15:1 molar ratio of methanol to jatropha oil, a reaction time of 7 h and a catalyst amount of 6 % wt, the conversion of jatropha oil was 86 %. The catalyst was also characterized with FTIR, XRD, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area, true density, particle size analyzer and SEM study.

• 出版日期2011-8