Preparation of Zirconium Nitride supported on SiO2 Catalyst for Vegetable Oil Conversion

Hydrocracking of crude palm oil (CPO) to produce biofuels was conducted over zirconium nitride supported on SiO2 (SiO2/ZrN) catalyst. SiO2/ZrN prepared by nitriding the SiO2/Zr at 600 C for 3 hrs under NH3 gas cylindrical reactor. exhibited a surface acidity 0.7132 mmol pyridine g‒1 with area 96 m2 g‒1, forming predominant mesopores EDS- mapping analysis showed that ZrN species highly distributed surface. CPO hydrocracking temperature 500 1 hr, flow rate 0.02 L min‒1 and H2 0.03 min‒1. The study revealed successfully afforded conversion up 94.98 wt.%, liquid yield 50.40 low residue coke formation. This catalyst promoted high selectivity towards bio-jet 72.95 wt.%.