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Biodiesel Production via ultrasonic technique

Amaniampong Nana Prince

The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

Abstract: Biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic renewable resources. It contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. Biodiesel can be used in compression-ignitions (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulphur and aromatics. The production of biodiesel from vegetable oil using ultrasonication requires an efficient catalyst to make the process fully economically and ecologically friendly. Solid catalyst and ultrasonication reduce reaction time and result in an increased yield of biodiesel production. This technique also proves to be efficient, time and energy saving for the preparation of biodiesel by transesterification as compared to the conventional way of magnetic stirring.

Keywords: Biodiesel, ultrasonication, transesterification, biodegradable, magnetic stirring.