Research on the synthesis and performances of a new biodiesel, propylene glycol methyl ether palm oil monoester

Author

Wang Wenguo ; Wang Xuanjun ; Guo Hejun ; Jian, Zhang ; Zhang Jian

Author_Institution

Xi´´an Res. Inst. of High Technol., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 April 2011

Firstpage

2537

Lastpage

2540

Abstract

In this paper, a new biodiesel, propylene glycol methyl ether palm oil monoester (PGMEPOM) was synthesized with propylene glycol methyl ether and palm oil as reagents and Na as catalyst. Under the optimum synthesis test conditions (molar ratio of propylene glycol methyl ether to palm oil was 10:1, mass content of Na to palm oil was 1.2%, reaction temperature was 90°C, and reaction duration was 30 min), the productive rate of transesterification reaction could reach up to about 91.3%. In addition, chemical structure of PGMEPOM was characterized by FTIR and 1H NMR analysis. And the performances of the biodiesel were studied in detailed.

Keywords

biofuel; 1H NMR analysis; FTIR; biodiesel; chemical structure; propylene glycol methyl ether palm oil monoester; transesterification reaction; Biofuels; Chemicals; Engines; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Spectrogram; Vibrations; PGMEPOM; biodiesel; diesel engine; engine performance; orthogonal test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Information and Control Engineering (ICEICE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8036-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEICE.2011.5777971

Filename

5777971