in situ Transesterification of Ground Pongamia pinnata Kernel under Sub/Supercritical Methanol Conditions

S. Panpraneecharoen; V. Punsuvon; Y.H. Ju

doi:10.14233/ajchem.2016.19350

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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2016): Vol 28 Issue 2

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in situ Transesterification of Ground Pongamia pinnata Kernel under Sub/Supercritical Methanol Conditions

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2016.19350

S. Panpraneecharoen

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

V. Punsuvon

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Y.H. Ju

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 43 Keelung Road, Section 4, Taipei 106-07, Taiwan

Corresponding Author(s) : V. Punsuvon

fscivit@ku.ac.th

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 28 No. 2 (2016): Vol 28 Issue 2
Article Published : November 3, 2015

Abstract

in situ Transesterification of ground Pongamia pinnata kernel under sub/supercritical conditions was studied. The effects of reaction temperature (200-250 °C), methanol-to-solid ratio (5:1-13:1 mL/g), reaction time (0-120 min) and stirring were investigated. A fatty acid methyl ester yield of 88.04 % was obtained under the following conditions:methanol-to-solid ratio 13:1 mL/g, reactant loading 80 %, with the reaction at 250 °C for 1 h with stirring. This process not only eliminated the oil extraction and esterification step for reducing the high free fatty acid content in P. pinnata kernel (up to 14 %) but also did not use the conventional acid/base catalyst for transesterification step to produce biodiesel.

Keywords

Pongamia pinnata Subcritical methanol Supercritical methanol Biodiesel Transesterification

Panpraneecharoen, S., Punsuvon, V., & Ju, Y. (2015). in situ Transesterification of Ground Pongamia pinnata Kernel under Sub/Supercritical Methanol Conditions. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 28(2), 369–373. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2016.19350

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in situ Transesterification of Ground Pongamia pinnata Kernel under Sub/Supercritical Methanol Conditions

Corresponding Author(s) : V. Punsuvon

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