Biodiesel Production Using Waste Cooking Oil Through The Microwave Irradiation And Conventional Method Using Cockle As Catalyst

Farid Nasir, Abdul-Fattah (2016) Biodiesel Production Using Waste Cooking Oil Through The Microwave Irradiation And Conventional Method Using Cockle As Catalyst. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This study investigates the production of biodiesel through a reaction of transesterification process using two different method which are microwave (MW) irradiation method and conventional method. The waste cooking oil (WCO) is used as a biodiesel feedstock due to have low content of free fatty acid (FFA) meanwhile cockle catalyst is prepared through calcination process at 9000C for 4 hours and obtained 93.98% of CaO, the purpose of catalyst is used to raise the transesterification reaction and biodiesel yield. Next, the presence of methanol in the reaction to breakdown the emulsion faster to form of biodiesel and glycerol. The MW irradiation are carried out at 300W power output and 5 minute reaction time while for conventional method are conducted at temperature 650C for 2 hours reaction time. The result shows that the highest yield of biodiesel between MW irradiation for 5 minute reaction time and conventional method for 2 hours reaction time are 83.76% and 80.2%. Therefore, MW irradiation could be employed as energy source due to its ability and efficient in accelerating the transesterification process.

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