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Nanocatalytic Conversion of Waste Palm Oil Grade III and Poplar Plant’s Wood Sawdust into Fuel

¹Department of Nanotechnology, Nanosciences and Technology Division, National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

²Department of Biosciences, University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan

³Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan

⁴Department of Environmental Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

*Corresponding Author:

Asghari Bano
Department of Biosciences
University of Wah, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
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E-mail: bano.asghari@gmail.com

Received date: August 22, 2017; Accepted date: August 23, 2017; Published date: August 31, 2017

Citation: Mahmood T, Malik M, Bano A, Umer J, Shaheen A (2017) Nanocatalytic Conversion of Waste Palm Oil Grade III and Poplar Plant’s Wood Sawdust into Fuel. Innov Ener Res 6:170.

Copyright: © 2017 Mahmood T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The aim of this research was to study the pyrolysis oil production from Palm Oil Grade III (POG-III) and popular wood sawdust crude oil. Today, worldwide studies have been undertaken on the biomass usage and co-conversion of biomass and coal to seek out alternative fuels for supplying energy in an environmental friendly way. Substitute fuels have become more and more vital due to descending petroleum reserves, increasing economic circumstances and awareness of the increased environmental penalties of emissions from petroleumfuelled engines. In this study, biodiesel fuel was manufactured by the nanocatalytic to elucidate their thermal behaviour under pyrolysis conditions and to assess major decomposition products in terms of their yields. Transesterification of Palm Oil Grade III (POG-III) at 80°C temperature by using nano Co as nanocatalyst. The prepared biodiesel was characterized by FT-IR and GC-MS. Results revealed the presence of esters, alkanes, alkenes, saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons with carbon chain in the range C9-C27. Prepared biodiesel is cost effective and highly efficient. Besides Palm oil popular wood sawdust crude oil was also used. All products were obtained at low temperature and at low atmospheric pressure.

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