Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis
2017: BCREC Volume 12 Issue 3 Year 2017 (December 2017)

Rapid Alcoholysis of Jatropha Curcas Oil for Biodiesel Production Using Ultrasound Irradiation

Muh. Irwan (Department of Chemical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Samarinda, Jln. Dr. Ciptomangunkusumo, Kampus Gunung Lipan, Samarinda 75131)
Hamdani Saidi (Institute of Hydrogen Economy (IHE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, Kuala Lumpur 54100)
M. A. Rachman (Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology, BPPT, Kawasan Puspiptek Serpong, Tangerang 15314)
Ramli Ramli (Department of Chemical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Samarinda, Jln. Dr. Ciptomangunkusumo, Kampus Gunung Lipan, Samarinda 75131)
Marlinda Marlinda (Department of Chemical Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Samarinda, Jln. Dr. Ciptomangunkusumo, Kampus Gunung Lipan, Samarinda 75131)

Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2017

Abstract

The biodiesel synthesis through alcoholysis process of triglyceride from Jatropha curcas using different type of alcohol, such as: methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol and tert-butanol, was conducted in the presence of potassium hydroxide (KOH) as catalyst under 35 kHz frequency ultrasound irradiation. The optimum conditions, such as: alcohol to jatropha oil molar ratio, concentration of catalyst, reaction temperature, and reaction time, were found  to be 7:1 of alcohol to jatropha oil molar ratio, 0.5 % of KOH, temperature of reaction at 35 0C, within the reaction times of 15 minutes. The results obtained for the different types of alcohol were 62.77 %, 57.93 %, 51.64 %, and 46.77 % for methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, and tert-butanol, respectively. 

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Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis
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bcrec

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Universitas Diponegoro

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Chemical Engineering, Chemistry & Bioengineering Chemistry

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Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis (e-ISSN: 1978-2993), an international journal, provides a forum for publishing the novel technologies related to the catalyst, catalysis, chemical reactor, kinetics studies, and chemical reaction ...