MAGNETIC MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOCOMPOSITE DECORATED WITH HETEROPOLY TUNGSTIC ACID AS HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND STABLE CATALYST FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION

Beyhan ERDEM, Kübra BİLGİN
2020 Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology A - Applied Sciences and Engineering  
A multifunctional heterogeneous acid catalyst named as spFe3O4@SBA-15@HPW was prepared, which consists of versatile properties such as magnetic separability, high conversion efficiency and reusability. This catalyst was characterized by XRD, FT-IR, VSM, TEM and SEM/EDX techniques with respect to structural, morphological and magnetic properties. The catalyst showed higher catalytic activity than the commercial catalysts such as Amberlyst-15 and Dowex 50Wx4 and also heteropoly tungstic acid
more » ... alone in terms of conversion of oleic acid for biodiesel production by the esterification of oleic acid with methanol. The experimental data were correlated by pseudo-first-order homogeneous and Eley-Rideal heterogeneous models, and the results demonstrate the suitability of Eley-Rideal mechanism.
doi:10.18038/estubtda.657085 fatcat:a7xbm7u3craw7pn2mhxo7cogfq