{"id":2118,"date":"2013-11-07T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brg.groups.xtbg.ac.cn\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2013-11-07T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:29:16","slug":"microwave-assisted-biodiesel-production-and-hydrothermal-gasification-of-by-product-glycerol-to-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/microwave-assisted-biodiesel-production-and-hydrothermal-gasification-of-by-product-glycerol-to-hydrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave-assisted biodiesel production and hydrothermal gasification of by-product glycerol to hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiesel, as an environmental-friendly renewable energy, receives continuous attention and is extensively studied. How to improve the efficiency of biodiesel production is a hot research topic. As the biodiesel industry grows rapidly, the discharge of main by-product glycerol increases substantially. Therefore, utilizing by-product glycerol to produce high value-added products has become the new focus of attention.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Solid sodium silicate catalyst was prepared and used to catalyze the transesterification of rapeseed and<i> Jatropha <\/i>oils to biodiesel under microwave irradiation. Experimental results showed that biodiesel yields of 95.8% and 92.8% were achieved from rapeseed and<i> Jatropha <\/i>oils, respectively (microwave power of 400 W, methanol\/oil molar ratio of 11\/1, catalyst amount of 4 wt% and reaction time of 5 min). In addition, a hydrogen yield of 82.8% with a gaseous concentration of 73.6% (v\/v) was achieved from hydrothermal gasification of by-product glycerol using Ni-based catalyst and deactivated sodium silicate from biodiesel production (catalyst amounts of Ni-based catalyst 40 wt% and sodium silicate 160 wt%, reaction temperature of 350 <sup>o<\/sup>C and reaction time of 30 min).<\/p>\n<p>The research work entitled \u201cCo-production of biodiesel and hydrogen from rapeseed and <i>Jatropha<\/i> oils with sodium silicate and Ni catalysts\u201d was published in <b><i>Applied Energy <\/i><\/b>(http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apenergy.2012.12.076).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiesel, as an environmental-friendly renewable energ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodrefinery.com\/zhenfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}