@inproceedings{60453a63d69a4f099a54af1d7e0e0639,
title = "Biodiesel production over Zn0/Ti02 catalyst: Effect of co-solvent, temperature and reaction time",
abstract = "The aim of this work was to produce biodiesel from waste vegetable oil over Zn0/Ti02 catalysts as well as investigating the effect of co-solvent (hcxane), reaction temperature and time on waste vegetable oil conversion to biodiesel. Production of biodiesel from virgin oil is still a downfall in commercial processes due to high cost. Thus, the process of producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil over a Ti02-supported ZnO catalyst was studied in the absence and the presence of hcxane as co-solvent respectively. The conversion of waste vegetable oil was found to increase with temperature and reaction time. The highest conversion that has been achieved was 99.1% at a temperature of 200 °C after 15 min of reaction for the reaction using hexane as co- solvent. The use of hexane as co-solvent was found to increase the oil conversion at lower reaction temperature and no effect was observed at higher temperatures.",
keywords = "Biodiesel, Effect of co-solvent, Zn0/Ti0",
author = "Ndanganeni Mahangani and Ephraim Vunain and Reinout Meijboom and Kalala Jalama",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science",
publisher = "Newswood Limited",
pages = "828--832",
editor = "Ao, {S. I.} and Len Gelman and Len Gelman and Hukins, {David W.L.} and Andrew Hunter and Korsunsky, {Alexander M.} and Ao, {S. I.} and Ao, {S. I.}",
booktitle = "WCE 2015 - World Congress on Engineering 2015",
note = "2015 World Congress on Engineering, WCE 2015 ; Conference date: 01-07-2015 Through 03-07-2015",
}
