Transesterification Of Palm Cooking Oil Using BiFeO3 Nanocatalyst

A novel heterogeneous bismuth ferrite nanocatalyst was successfully synthesized via facile biotemplated technique (BiFeO3) using polysaccharides of kappa-carrageenan with an aim to study its efficiency transesterification reaction of palm cooking oil. Pure BiFeO3 with particle size of 95.8 nm was...

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Main Author: Razuki, Nor Amirah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/62293/
http://eprints.usm.my/62293/1/Transesterification%20of%20palm%20cut.pdf
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Summary:A novel heterogeneous bismuth ferrite nanocatalyst was successfully synthesized via facile biotemplated technique (BiFeO3) using polysaccharides of kappa-carrageenan with an aim to study its efficiency transesterification reaction of palm cooking oil. Pure BiFeO3 with particle size of 95.8 nm was obtained using 1:2 molar ratio of Bi to Fe with 1 % carrageenan biotemplate and calcined at 823 K for 2 hours. The produced nanocatalyst possess high thermal stability and X-ray diffraction (XRD) result confirmed the purity of its rhombohedral crystalline phases.