Development of fatty acids as feedstocks for biofuels from Gmelina arborea waste leaves

This work was aimed at; investigating a clean method of removing waste leaves from the stream, converting them into fatty acids, biodiesel feedstock, or upgrading to deoxygenated fuels for higher energy content. Waste Gmelina arborea were collected, cleaned, and pulverized with ceramic mortar pestle. A 50g thermally hydrolyzed over 0.75g H2SO4, NaOH, ZnCl2 catalysts 500mL distilled water on GallenKamp hot plate magnetic stirrer at 100oC 30 minutes. The extracts filtered sheet cloth, dried 0.2% anhydrous MgSO4 weighed. Each extract analyzed gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) machine determine its components compositions. quantities acids extracted 228.30g, 184.30g 118.43g respectively. estimated found be 240.02g, 193.8g 124.39g Also, bio-hydrogenated gasoline (BHG) diesel (BHD) 192.27g, 154.97g 87.37g process yields more than conventional seed oils. would economical achieve biofuel economy use lipids oil seeds. Keywords: biofuels, development, feedstocks, arborea,