Simulation Of Biodiesel Production From Used Frying Oil (UFO) Using Alkaline - Based Catalysts

Tay , Yon Yon (2010) Simulation Of Biodiesel Production From Used Frying Oil (UFO) Using Alkaline - Based Catalysts. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Fossil fuel resource is now facing fast depletion. As to overcome this situation, biodiesel is gaining more and more importance as an alternative fuel. This thesis is concern about the simulation of biodiesel production from used frying oil (UFO) using alkaline-based catalysts, (i.e. sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium methoxide, mixture of sodium hydroxide with potassium hydroxide and mixture of sodium hydroxide with sodium methoxide) and the yield of biodiesel is simulated by HYSYS 3.2 analytical software. Based upon several literature reviews, the result gained by these researches show different types and amount of catalysts give different yield of biodiesel. The method of process simulation in this research, mainly involve defining chemical components, selecting thermodynamic model, choosing proper operating unit and input condition and execute the steady state simulation. Different type of catalysts gives different values of biodiesel yield production in laboratory experiment. Yet by using simulation, the difference between the yield productions for different types of catalysts did not show significant different, this maybe cause by the idealness of simulation environment.

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