Heavy metal contamination is accidentally becoming prevalent in Antarctica, one of the world’s most pristine regions. Anthropogenic as well natural causes can result heavy contamination. Each has a different toxic effect on various microorganisms and species, which interfere with other pollutant bioremediation processes. This study focused co-contaminant metals waste canola oil (WCO) biodegrada...

In this paper we address the optimal production of second generation of biodiesel using waste cooking oil and algae oil. We consider 5 different technologies for the transesterification of the oil (homogeneous acid or alkali catalyzed, heterogeneous basic catalyzed, enzymatic and supercritical non catalyzed). We formulate the problem as an MINLP where the models for each of the reactors are bas...

This experiment is an investigation of used cooking oil as a sustainable and renewable resource for methyl ester production. with more than 95.5% production yield, thermally activated hydrated cement has been carefully discussed as a catalyst in the transesterification of used cooking oil into methyl ester to use waste cement as a heterogeneous catalyst for methyl ester production through elect...

Neat biodiesels are not preferred for use in the compression ignition (CI) engines due to their high viscosities and related operational difficulties. This study investigated fuel properties combustion characteristics when 2-butoxyethanol additive was mixed separately with waste cooking oil biodiesel (W100) rapeseed (R100). Compared neat biodiesels, (at 40 °C) of W100 R100 were reduced by 12.5%...

Background: This study aims to measure the output torque and analyze the exhaust elements of a small diesel engine that use the diesel fuel mixed with waste cooking oil to validate the driving and environmental characteristics of this fuel. Methods: The fuel used was diesel fuel mixed with 15% of waste cooking oil, a small quantity of additives and was produced with no complicated refining proc...

This paper presents the implementation of polynomial vector back propagation algorithm (PVBPA) for estimating the power, torque, specific fuel consumption and presence of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons in the emission of a direct injection diesel engine. Experimental readings were obtained using the biodiesel prepared form the waste low quality cooking oil collected from the canteen of Sri Saira...

This study is motivated by the depletion of fossil fuels in nature, which inversely proportional to higher level fuel oil consumption, so need for alternative fuels, namely biodiesel. Biodiesel can be made using waste cooking because its abundant quantity, low price, and not being reused. One efforts achieve energy conservation improve quality bioadditives. A lemon essential used as a bio-addit...