Synthesis of Acidic Ionic Liquids Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Polymer for Efficient, Green and Low Cost Production of Biodiesel from waste brown grease Iman Noshadi, Baishali Kanjilal, Steven Suib, Fujian Liu, Richard Parnas  IntroductionWe demonstrate below an efficient super acid catalyst for simultaneous esterification and transesterification of brown grease to biodiesel. Reactions with methanol are catalysed by an ordered mesoporous polymer of OMR-[HMTA][SO4H], and the base polymer is functionalized by strongly acidic ionic liquids. The performed OMR-[HMTA] could be synthesized from the self assembly of copolymer template of F127 with resol in the presence of hexamethyltetramine (HMTA) cross-linker under high temperature hydrothermal conditions. Interestingly, OMR-[HMTA][SO4H] shows much better catalytic activity and recyclability for production biodiesel than commercial Ambralyst 15 solid acid, and both solid catalysts are compared to hydrochloric acid as a control.

Syntheis of acidic ionic liquids functionalized ordered mesoporous polymer for efficient, green, and low cost production of biodiesel from waste brown grease

246th National Meeting (2013)

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