DOI: https://doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.7.2.3047.142-149

Solid Catalysts and theirs Application in Biodiesel Production

Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

Received: 6 Apr 2012; Revised: 24 Oct 2012; Accepted: 24 Oct 2012; Published: 30 Dec 2012.
Editor(s): Istadi Istadi
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The reduction of oil resources and increasing petroleum price has led to the search for alternative fuel from renewable resources such as biodiesel. Currently biodiesel is produced from vegetable oil using liquid catalysts. Replacement of liquid catalysts with solid catalysts would greatly solve the problems associated with expensive separation methods and corrosion problems, yielding to a cleaner product and greatly decreasing the cost of biodiesel production. In this paper, the development of solid catalysts and its catalytic activity are reviewed. Solid catalysts are able to perform trans-esterification and esterification reactions simultaneously and able to convert low quality oils with high amount of Free Fatty Acids. The parameters that effect the production of biodiesel are discussed in this paper. © 2012 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: Biodiesel; heterogeneous catalyst; solid acid; transesterification; esterification
Funding: Ministry of High Education Malaysia under contract FRGS grant scheme

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