CHARACTERIZATION AND KINETIC STUDY OF BODIESEL PRODUCTION FROM PAWPAW SEED OIL
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The increasing global demand for sustainable and renewable energy has spurred
significant interest in biodiesel as an eco-friendly alternative to fossil fuels. Pawpaw seed oil is
an underutilized and non-edible agricultural byproduct but has potential to be used for biodiesel
production. Thus, this study aims at kinetic modelling of biodiesel synthesis from pawpaw seed
oil.
The pawpaw seed oil (PSO) will be collected from extracted bulk quantity from
Analytical laboratory of Chemistry Department, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso. The PSO will be
transesterified in a three necked botton flask at a reaction condition of 1.5 wt.% catalyst
loading, methanol to oil ratio of 9:1, varying reaction temperature (35, 45, 55, 65 and 75 ℃)
and time (30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 min) using potassium methoxide as catalyst (CH3OK). The
biodiesel produced will be characterized for its physicochemical analysis and fatty acids
composition using gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS). The kinetics modelling of
the PSO transesterification process will be done at the varying reaction temperatures and time
using pseudo-first-order kinetic model.
The findings of this study will offer promising data that would be used for the design of
biodiesel reactor and conversion of waste to wealt
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