Biodiesel production from Argemone mexicana seed oil using crystalline manganese carbonate

• Authors: Rajeshwer Rao , Pudukulathan Zubaidha , Dasharath Kondhare , Narender Reddy , Sushma Deshmukh
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This communication explores the feasibility of biodiesel production from a weed plant Argemone mexicana seed oil and an efficient catalyst crystalline manganese carbonate. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study making use of pure, crystalline, ash colored manganese carbonate as a heterogeneous catalyst for the production of methyl esters as fuel from Argemone mexicana seed oil. The optimum process conditions for the conversion of Argemone mexicana oil to its methyl ester by transesterification required 1% manganese carbonate as catalyst with alcohol to oil ratio 5:1 at 60°C to yield biodiesel of 99.99% purity. The methyl esters obtained were examined by Gas chromatography analysis.

Keywords

EN

Biodiesel; Fatty acid methyl esters; Argemone mexicana seed oil; crystalline Manganese carbonate; Heterogeneous catalyst

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-70

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2012

online

3 - 4 - 2012

Contributors

author

Rajeshwer Rao

• Department of chemistry, Government city college, Hyderabad- 500 002, India

author

Pudukulathan Zubaidha

• School of chemical sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Vishnupuri, Nanded- 431 606, India

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Dasharath Kondhare

• Department of chemistry, Government city college, Hyderabad- 500 002, India

author

Narender Reddy

• Department of chemistry, Government city college, Hyderabad- 500 002, India

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Sushma Deshmukh

• School of chemical sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Vishnupuri, Nanded- 431 606, India

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10026-012-0061-x