Microwave Transesterification Of Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) Using Waste Cockles

Adnan, Anis Adrina (2018) Microwave Transesterification Of Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) Using Waste Cockles. 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 a microwave (MW) irradiation 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 speed up 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 is carried out at 100,200,300W power output and 3, 5, 7 minutes reaction time compared to conventional requires more reaction time. The result shows that the highest yield of biodiesel obtain at 3 minutes reaction time and 200 watt power output is 84.578%. Therefore, MW irradiation could be employed as energy source due to its ability and efficient in accelerating the transesterification process.

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