Potential of Ripe Plantain Fruit Peels as an Ecofriendly Catalyst for Biodiesel Synthesis
| dc.contributor.author | Anietie. O, ETIM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eriola, BETIKU | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sheriff. O, AJALA | |
| dc.contributor.author | Peter. J, OLANIYI | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tunde. V, OJUMU | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-15T10:48:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-15T10:48:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-02-05 | |
| dc.description | International journal of MDPI, p.1-15 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The present work was aimed at assessing the possible use of ripe plantain fruit peel as a green-base catalyst in synthesizing Azadirachta indica oil methyl esters (AIOME). The free fatty acid content of the oil (5.81 wt %) was initially reduced to 0.90 wt % using methanol: oil at 2.19 v/v, Fe2(SO4)3 at 6 wt %, time of 15 min and temperature of 65 C. The pretreated oil was converted to AIOME in a transesterification process with calcined ripe plantain peel ash (CRPPA) at 700 C as catalyst. The process was modeled by artificial neural network and optimized using genetic algorithm. The effectiveness of the developed CRPPA is ascribable to its high K content and microstructural transformation. The reliability of the model obtained was confirmed with a high coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.996 and a low mean relative percentage deviation (MRPD) of 8.10%. The best operating variables combination for the process was methanol:oil of 0.73 v/v, CRPPA of 0.65 wt % and time of 57 min while the temperature was kept constant at 65 C with a corresponding AIOME yield of 99.2 wt %. The results of this work demonstrated the potentials of ripe plantain peels and neem oil as cheap feedstocks for biodiesel production | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.oauife.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5043 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
| dc.subject | biodiesel | en_US |
| dc.subject | artificial neural network | en_US |
| dc.subject | heterogeneous catalyst | en_US |
| dc.subject | modeling | en_US |
| dc.subject | optimization | en_US |
| dc.subject | transesterification | en_US |
| dc.title | Potential of Ripe Plantain Fruit Peels as an Ecofriendly Catalyst for Biodiesel Synthesis | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Optimization by Artificial Neural Network Integrated with Genetic Algorithm | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal | en_US |