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| Title: | Reactive-extraction of pongamia seeds for biodiesel production |
| Authors: | Porwal, Jyoti
Bangwal, Dinesh
Garg, M.O.
Kaul, Savita |
| Keywords: | Pongamia
Methanol
Reactive Extraction
Biodiesel/ FAME |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | Biodiesel (FAME) was produced from Pongamia seeds
(commonly known as Karanja) by reactive-extraction. Reactiveextraction involves
contacting ground seeds directly with alcohol and catalyst i.e. without
intervening extraction of the vegetable oil. This process has the potential to
reduce cost by removing the need for capital and running cost-intensive steps
such as oil extraction of seeds. Reaction parameters such as seed size (>2
mm to <1 mm), seed/solvent ratio (wt/wt) (1:2-1:4), temperature (30-60oC) and rate of mixing
(250-550 rpm) were studied. The maximum 98.5% conversion to biodiesel was
achieved at: seed size (<1 mm), seed/solvent ratio (wt/wt) (1:4), rate of
mixing (550 rpm) at 60 oC for 1 hr with 0.1 M catalyst (KOH) concentration,
meeting International (ASTM) as well as National (BIS) specifications. |
| Page(s): | 822-828 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print) |
| Source: | JSIR Vol.71(12) [December 2012]
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