Ionic liquid as a promising biobased green solvent in combination with microwave irradiation for direct biodiesel production

Sitti Raehanah Muhamad Shaleh and Ani Idris and Suzana Wahidin (2016) Ionic liquid as a promising biobased green solvent in combination with microwave irradiation for direct biodiesel production. Bioresource Technology, 206. pp. 150-154. ISSN 0960-8524

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Abstract

The wet biomass microalgae of Nannochloropsis sp. was converted to biodiesel using direct transesterification (DT) by microwave technique and ionic liquid (IL) as the green solvent. Three different ionic liquids; 1-butyl-3-metyhlimidazolium chloride ([BMIM][Cl], 1-ethyl-3-methylimmidazolium methyl sulphate [EMIM][MeSO4] and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethane sulfonate [BMIM][CF3SO3]) and organic solvents (hexane and methanol) were used as co-solvents under microwave irradiation and their performances in terms of percentage disruption, cell walls ruptured and biodiesel yields were compared at different reaction times (5, 10 and 15 min). [EMIM][MeSO4] showed highest percentage cell disruption (99.73%) and biodiesel yield (36.79% per dried biomass) after 15 min of simultaneous reaction. The results demonstrated that simultaneous extraction-transesterification using ILs and microwave irradiation is a potential alternative method for biodiesel production.

Item Type: Article
Keyword: Ionic liquid, Microwave,; Green solvent, Microalgae, Direct transesterification
Subjects: T Technology > TP Chemical technology
Department: INSTITUTE > Borneo Marine Research Institute
Depositing User: ADMIN ADMIN
Date Deposited: 03 Aug 2016 14:16
Last Modified: 26 Nov 2020 13:46
URI: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/13660

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