Tag: transesterification

Researchers developed a coal-fly-ash-supported alkaline catalyst that yielded palm-oil biodiesel with 96.54 percent fatty acid methyl ester content and improved ...

A study in Environmental Science and Pollution Research reports that dual-function silica catalysts achieve a 100% biodiesel yield from used ...

A Nigerian team built a reusable calcium oxide and aluminum oxide catalyst from snail shells that converted high-acid jatropha oil ...

A sol-gel LaMoO3 perovskite catalyst converted waste cooking oil to biodiesel at 88.7% with hexane as a co-solvent, with thermodynamic ...

Researchers report a single-step fermentation in which Starmerella yeasts fed glucose, oleic acid and alcohols directly produce acetylated sophorolipid esters, ...

A new review synthesizes 2020-2025 advances in converting algal biomass into biodiesel, syngas, bio-oil, ethanol, biogas, and hydrogen, concluding that ...

Researchers grafted biomass-derived furan rings onto an iron metal-organic framework to create a hydrophobic, acid-base bifunctional catalyst that converts water- ...

Solid acid catalysts promise cleaner, solvent-free routes to industrial chemistry, but they share a stubborn weakness: the acid sites that ...

Scientists used leaf-extract-derived silver oxide nanoparticles to convert non-edible Madhuca longifolia seed oil into ASTM-compliant biodiesel with a 92 percent ...

A cobalt-ceria-alumina mixed oxide catalyst converts biodiesel-derived glycerol and dimethyl carbonate into glycidol with 99.9 percent conversion and 81.3 percent ...