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An experimental study on the effect of microwave power on biodiesel production from waste cooking vegetable oil

AIP Conference Proceedings, ISSN: 1551-7616, Vol: 2415
2022
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Biodiesel is a very potential fuel to replace diesel fuel. Waste cooking vegetable oil (WCVO) can be used as raw material for making biodiesel. One method of making biodiesel is by using microwave irradiation. Microwave heating is more advantageous than conventional heating. This study aims to determine the effect of power supply in the production of biodiesel from (WCVO) at optimum reaction time and oil-to-methanol molar ratio. Transesterification of waste cooking oil takes place in a microwave oven by variations in microwave power (160, 320, 480, 640, and 800 Watt) at reaction time of 4 min, oil-to-methanol molar ratio as 1:6. Also, methanol and ethanol are used to compare between them. The optimum condition that have found was 480 watt power supply and maximum biodiesel yield is 82%. Also the methyl ester has same physical properties of ethyl ester with slightly increasing in biodiesel yield as 84% with ethanol.

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