Na-Ce-modified-SBA-15 as an effective and reusable bimetallic mesoporous catalyst for the sustainable production of biodiesel

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2020-08-01

Authors

Edgar M. Sánchez Faba (Author) Other; Gabriel O. Ferrero (Author) Other; Joana M. Dias (Author) FEUP; Griselda A. Eimer (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Applied Catalysis A: General

Vol. 604

Pages: 1-10

ISSN: 0926-860X

Publisher: Elsevier

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Authenticus ID: P-00S-MMN

DOI: 10.1016/j.apcata.2020.117769

Abstract (EN): With the purpose to compete with the homogeneous catalytic biodiesel production, a highly efficient bimetallic solid catalyst with high exposed surface, high basicity, and reusable throughout several reaction cycles, was developed by doping SBA-15 with sodium and cerium in different concentrations. The catalyst with 5 wt% of Na and 20 wt% of Ce showed good structural ordering and had the highest basicity due to the presence of a large amount of medium and strong sites compared to the other materials. It was effectively used as a solid base catalyst for biodiesel production from sunflower oil and absolute methanol. The highest FAME content (98.9 wt %) was achieved under optimum conditions of 40:1 methanol/oil molar ratio, 10 wt% catalyst loading, 60 degrees C, stirring speed of 600-700 rpm and 180 min. Further, this material was reused for five consecutive runs, obtaining FAME contents greater than 90 % in each one of them.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10