Biodiesel production from used cooking oil using a novel surface functionalised TiO2 nano-catalyst

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 207, Issue , 2017, Pages 297-310

  Gardy, Jabbar ^a   Hassanpour, Ali ^a   Lai, Xiaojun ^a   Ahmed, Mukhtar H ^b   Rehan, Mohammad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Esterification and transesterification; Solid acid nano catalyst; TiO2 propyl sulfonic acid; Used cooking oil

Indexed keywords

BIODIESEL; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; METHANOL; OILS AND FATS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

CATALYTIC EFFICIENCIES; CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; NANO-CATALYST; SULFONIC ACID; SURFACE FUNCTIONALISATION; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION; USED COOKING OIL;

NANOCATALYSTS;

EID: 85013311852     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.01.080     Document Type: Article

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