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Title: Exploration of upstream and downstream process for microwave assisted sustainable biodiesel production from microalgae Chlorella vulgaris
Authors: Sharma, Amit Kumar
Sahoo, Pradeepta Kumar
Singhal, Shailey
Joshi, Girdhar
Keywords: Chlorella Vulgaris
Open Raceway Cultivation
Microwave Irradiation
Biodiesel
Issue Date: 5-Jun-2016
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: The present study explores the integrated approach for the sustainable production of biodiesel from Chlorella vulgaris microalgae. The microalgae were cultivated in 10 m2 open raceway pond at semi-continuous mode with optimum volumetric and areal production of 28.105 kg/L/y and 71.51 t/h/y, respectively. Alum was used as flocculent for harvesting the microalgae and optimized at different pH. Lipid was extracted using chloroform: methanol (2:1) and having 12.39% of FFA. Effect of various reaction conditions such as effect of catalyst, methanol:lipid ratio, reaction temperature and time on biodiesel yields were studied under microwave irradiation; and 84.01% of biodiesel yield was obtained under optimized reaction conditions. A comparison was also made between the biodiesel productions under conventional heating and microwave irradiation. The synthesized biodiesel was characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, FTIR and GC; however, fuel properties of biodiesel were also studied using specified test methods as per ASTM and EN standards
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2338
ISSN: 0960-8524
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