Investigation of heterogeneous solid acid catalyst performance on low grade feedstocks for biodiesel production: A review

N Mansir, YH Taufiq-Yap, U Rashid… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The conventional fossil fuel reserves are continually declining worldwide and therefore
posing greater challenges to the future of the energy sources. Biofuel alternatives were …

Production of liquid biofuels from renewable resources

PS Nigam, A Singh - Progress in energy and combustion science, 2011 - Elsevier
This article is an up-to-date review of the literature available on the subject of liquid biofuels.
In search of a suitable fuel alternative to fast depleting fossil fuel and oil reserves and in …

Green biodiesel production from Jatropha curcas oil using a carbon-based solid acid catalyst: a process optimization study

JVL Ruatpuia, B Changmai, A Pathak, LA Alghamdi… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiesel production from low cost, inedible oil represents an increasingly important target
for reasons of both sustainability and cost. In this work, we comprehensively verify the batch …

Activity of solid acid catalysts for biodiesel production: a critical review

YM Sani, WMAW Daud, ARA Aziz - Applied Catalysis A: General, 2014 - Elsevier
Homogeneous acid catalysts received wide acceptability because of their fast reaction rates.
However, postproduction costs incurred from aqueous quenching, wastewater and loss of …

The pros and cons of lignin valorisation in an integrated biorefinery

Z Strassberger, S Tanase, G Rothenberg - Rsc Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This short critical review outlines possible scenarios for using lignin as a feedstock in a
biorefinery environment. We first explain the position of biomass with respect to fossil carbon …

Technologies for production of biodiesel focusing on green catalytic techniques: a review

Z Helwani, MR Othman, N Aziz, WJN Fernando… - Fuel Processing …, 2009 - Elsevier
Biodiesel production is undergoing rapid technological reforms in industries and academia.
This has become more obvious and relevant since the recent increase in the petroleum …

Solid heterogeneous catalysts for transesterification of triglycerides with methanol: a review

Z Helwani, MR Othman, N Aziz, J Kim… - Applied Catalysis A …, 2009 - Elsevier
Increasing number of researches focusing on the use of solid heterogeneous catalysts for
the production of biodiesel provides evidence that these catalysts continue to evolve as …

Production of non-food feedstock based biodiesel using acid-base bifunctional heterogeneous catalysts: A review

M Mulyatun, J Prameswari, I Istadi, W Widayat - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Research on biodiesel production utilizing heterogeneous catalysts continued to be studied
as an effort to develop sustainable production and to improve the quality of biodiesel. The …

Inorganic heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production from vegetable oils

AK Endalew, Y Kiros, R Zanzi - Biomass and bioenergy, 2011 - Elsevier
Biofuels are renewable solutions to replace the ever dwindling energy reserves and
environmentally pollutant fossil liquid fuels when they are produced from low cost …

Heterogeneous acid catalysts for biodiesel production: current status and future challenges

JA Melero, J Iglesias, G Morales - Green Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
The reduction of oil resources and the consequent increasing price of oil distillates as well
as the environmental concerns of conventional fuels has renewed and increased interest on …