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Characterization of calcium oxide catalysts from natural sources and their application in the transesterification of sunflower oil

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The catalytic activities of calcium oxide obtained from natural sources (crab shell and eggshell) showed that these materials have promising viability in transesterification for biodiesel production.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2014-01-01. It has received 158 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transesterification & Biodiesel production.

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A review of biomass-derived heterogeneous catalyst for a sustainable biodiesel production

TL;DR: A review of bio-based heterogeneous catalysts utilized for sustainable biodiesel production and their suitability for industrial application is presented in this article, where the use of these biomass derived catalysts provides a greener synthesis route for biodiesel synthesis.
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A review on recent advancement in catalytic materials for biodiesel production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits and limitations of using homogeneous, heterogeneous, enzyme catalysts, and supercritical method for the alcoholysis process are comprehensively discussed.
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Valorization of biomass to hydroxymethylfurfural, levulinic acid, and fatty acid methyl ester by heterogeneous catalysts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the perspectives and challenges during the conversion of actual biomass, including the impact of complex constituents and impurities of biomass on the solid catalysts, mass transfer limitation in the reactions, and the stability and deactivation of the solid catalyst.
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Egg shell waste as heterogeneous nanocatalyst for biodiesel production: Optimized by response surface methodology.

TL;DR: The waste shells were utilized for the synthesis of highly active heterogeneous calcium oxide (CaO) nanocatalyst to transesterify dry biomass into methyl esters (biodiesel) and the fuel properties of prepared biodiesel were found to be highly comply with the biodiesel standard ASTMD6751 and EN14214.
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Eggshell waste as catalyst: A review.

TL;DR: A global view of eggshell waste uses as catalyst in different processes is provided and a huge variety of added value products can be obtained by using this catalyst which emphasised the interest of further investigations in order to widen the possible uses of this cheap green catalyst
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Biodiesel production : a review

TL;DR: In this article, the transesterification reaction is aected by molar ratio of glycerides to alcohol, catalysts, reaction temperature, reaction time and free fatty acids and water content of oils or fats.
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Technical aspects of biodiesel production by transesterification—a review

TL;DR: In this paper, various methods of preparation of biodiesel with different combination of oil and catalysts have been described and technical tools and processes for monitoring the transesterification reactions like TLC, GC, HPLC, GPC, 1H NMR and NIR have also been summarized.
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Triglycerides-based diesel fuels

TL;DR: The main advantages of using biodiesel are its renewability, better-quality exhaust gas emissions, its biodegradability and given that all the organic carbon present is photosynthetic in origin, it does not contribute to a rise in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and consequently to the greenhouse effect as mentioned in this paper.
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Biodiesel production from oils and fats with high free fatty acids

TL;DR: In this paper, a technique is described to reduce the free fatty acids content of these feedstocks using an acid catalyzed pretreatment to esterify the free acids before transesterifying the triglycerides with an alkaline catalyst to complete the reaction.
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Activity of solid catalysts for biodiesel production: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the catalytic activity of several solid base and acid catalysts, particularly metal oxides and supported metal oxide, was reviewed for transesterification and esterification reactions simultaneously and converted oils with high amount of Free Fatty Acids.
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