renewable fuels in recent years. Biodiesel made from plant oils and animal fats is one such alternative. In 2007, the United … the ability of the biodiesel infrastructure to meet the Renewable Fuel Standards outlined in the recently-passed Energy … potential demand for biodiesel, possible feedstocks, and capital costs. Current US biodiesel refinery capacity exceeds the …

Heterogeneous basic catalysts can be used for biodiesel production. The performances of several types of such materials …

The effectiveness of hedging volatile input prices for biodiesel producers is examined over one- to eight-week time …

Worldwide production of biodiesel is growing at a rapid pace. Arguably, the European Union (EU) is the global leader in … biodiesel production, but the United States has recently expanded its production. The growth of the biodiesel industry in both … a comparative analysis of the EU and U.S. biodiesel industries, highlighting market and policy aspects that are leading …

In this study, transesterification of soybean oil to biodiesel using KOH in different process conditions were studied … conditions were found to be methanol/oil molar ratio, 9:1; catalyst amount, 1 wt%; reaction temperature, 60 °C. Biodiesel yield … the biodiesel yield. The multilayer feed forward neural network with three inputs and one output has been trained with …

/oil molar ratio, catalyst (%), catalyst type, and temperature affected the process. The highest yield of biodiesel was obtained … also conducted the physicochemical analysis of the soybean oil used as feedstock to produce biodiesel. …

Methyl esters produced by transesterification of vegetable oils are the main components of biodiesel, an alternative … environmentally friendly processes to produce biodiesel. In this work, Zn,Al-mixed oxides with different Al/(Al + Zn) molar ratios … temperature of 182.5 °C, catalyst loading of 5.0 wt.%, and alcohol/oil molar ratio of 45, that provided a biodiesel yield of 86 …

magnetic separation. Both catalysts were used for the catalytic transesterification of soybean and Jatropha oils to biodiesel …. The highest biodiesel yields for soybean oil of 85.4% and 83.5% were obtained over the weak and strong magnetic catalysts … be recycled three times. Biodiesel production from pretreated Jatropha oil was tested with the magnetic CaFe2O4–Ca2Fe2O5 …

The catalytic synthesis of biodiesel from soybean oil by transesterification over basic ionic liquid catalysts had been … basic ionic liquid catalysts, and methanol is the best alcohol for biodiesel synthesis. The suitable molar ratio of methanol … reaction time was 2.5h on the basis of biodiesel yield. The reusability test showed that ChOH catalyst had perfect utility for …