Study on Processing Parameters Such as Temperature, Density and Catalyst Type on Production of Biodiesel Out of Sunflower Oil

Abstract

In the past decade, biodiesel has been noticed as a reproducible, non-toxic and lucrative
fuel. This fuel is in fact the FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER which has been resulted from
Trans-esterification of Tri-glyceride. It´s expected that biodiesel will be developed
throughout the world with a greater pace. With regards to the importance of biodiesel
production, 18 samples of this biofuel have been made out of sunflower oil in three
reaction temperatures of 60, 70, 80, ̊C with two catalysts (potassium hydroxide & sodium
hydroxide) with different weights of 0.5, 1, 1.5 % with 300 rpm agitation intensity under
Alcohol to water ratio of 1:5 in 60 minutes period. the consequences showed that the high
quality of this biofuel resulted from the catalyst of potassium hydroxide with weight
percentage of 1 in comparison to the other two weight percentages of 0.5 & 1.5.