TY - JOUR AB - Transesterification reaction of Jatropha curcas oil with methanol was carried out in the presence of ash generated from Palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) in a heterogeneous catalyzed process. The ash was doped with KOH by impregnation to achieve a potassium level of 20 wt.%. Under optimum conditions for the EFB-catalyzed (65 degrees C, oil/methanol ratio of 15, 90 min, 20 wt.% EFB ash catalyst) and the KOH-EFB-catalyzed reactions (65 degrees C, oil/methanol ratio of 15,45 min, 15 wt.% of KOH doped EFB ash), biodiesel (>98%) with specifications higher than those stipulated by European biodiesel quality standard EN 14214 was obtained. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AD - Sree Neelakanta Govt Sanskrit Coll, Dept Chem, Palakkad 679306, Kerala, India AN - WOS:000301155800094 AU - Yaakob, Z. AU - Bin Sukarman, I. S. AU - Narayanan, B. AU - Abdullah, S. R. S. AU - Ismail, M. DA - Jan DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.10.058 J2 - Bioresource Technol KW - heterogeneous catalysis LA - English N1 - 903xk PY - 2012 SN - 0960-8524 SP - 695-700 ST - Utilization of palm empty fruit bunch for the production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas oil T2 - Bioresource Technology TI - Utilization of palm empty fruit bunch for the production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas oil UR - ://WOS:000301155800094 VL - 104 ID - 8281 ER -