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Synthesis of CaOZnO Nanoparticles Catalyst and Its Application in Transesterification of Refined Palm Oil

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Universitas Islam Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia

2Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Energy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya 60111, Indonesia

3Diploma of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

4 Department of Computer Science, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto, 860-8555, Japan

5 Institute of Hydrogen Economy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Malaysia

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Received: 1 Jan 2014; Revised: 10 Mar 2014; Accepted: 18 Mar 2014; Available online: 14 Jul 2014; Published: 30 Aug 2014.
Editor(s): Istadi Istadi
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The CaOZnO nanoparticle catalysts with Ca to Zn atomic ratios of 0.08 and 0.25 have been successfully synthesized by co-precipitation method. The catalyst was characterized by X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis provided with Rietica and Maud software, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and its properties was compared with bare CaO and ZnO catalysts. The phase composition estimated by Rietica software revealed that the CaO catalyst consists of CaO and CaCO3 phases. The estimation of the particle size by Maud software, showed that the particle size of all catalysts increased by the following order: ZnO. © 2014 by Authors, Published by BCREC Group. This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Keywords: CaOZnO coprecipitation; transesterification; refined palm oil; yield of methyl ester; TON-TOF
Funding: Directorate General of Higher Education Indonesia, DIPA ITS 2012 under contract grant no. 0392.19/IT2.7/PM/2012; JICA PREDICT – ITS

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