TY - GEN
T1 - Biodiesel from Jatropha oil
AU - Kouame, Sylvain Didier
AU - Perez, Joseph M.
AU - Eser, Semih
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Oil was extracted from toxic seeds of a shrub, Jatropha Curcas, in high yields, up to 41% by weight. Jatropha oil was converted in a laboratory reactor to biodiesel by transesterification. Analysis of Jatropha oil and Jatropha biodiesel by GC/MS, NMR, and GC/SIMDIS showed that Jatropha oil could be readily converted to a biodiesel product through NaOH catalyzed transesterification. The resulting biodiesel fuel has desirable properties such as high cetane number compared to commercial biodiesel fuels from soybean oil and petroleum diesel.
AB - Oil was extracted from toxic seeds of a shrub, Jatropha Curcas, in high yields, up to 41% by weight. Jatropha oil was converted in a laboratory reactor to biodiesel by transesterification. Analysis of Jatropha oil and Jatropha biodiesel by GC/MS, NMR, and GC/SIMDIS showed that Jatropha oil could be readily converted to a biodiesel product through NaOH catalyzed transesterification. The resulting biodiesel fuel has desirable properties such as high cetane number compared to commercial biodiesel fuels from soybean oil and petroleum diesel.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955617340
SN - 9780841269859
T3 - ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
BT - American Chemical Society - 235th National Meeting, Abstracts of Scientific Papers
T2 - 235th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, ACS 2008
Y2 - 6 April 2008 through 10 April 2008
ER -