M. Rizal, N. Suriaini, Y. Syamsuddin, M.D. Supardan
Esterification followed by transesterification process is widely applied for biodiesel production from oil with high free fatty acids (FFA) content to remove the FFA and increase the yield of biodiesel. The aim of this research was to study the esterification of waste cooking oil using the hydrodynamic cavitation apparatus. Waste cooking oil with initial FFA content 4.33% was esterified with methanol using sulfuric acid 1%-w/w as the catalyst. The reaction condition was kept constant for 120 minutes of total reaction time. At the best operating condition i.e. molar ratio of waste cooking oil to methanol 1:10 and reaction temperature 50 °C, the initial FFA of waste cooking oil 4.33% reduced to 0.76%. The experimental results also showed that the hydrodynamic cavitation had better performance than the conventional process using mechanical stirring. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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