PRODUCTION AND OPTIMIZATION OF ETHYL ESTER PRODUCED FROM Adansonia digitata SEED OIL | Journal ....

Due to increased industrialization and population growth, there is a significant need for energy around the world. The current energy supply is finite, and the usage of fossil fuels has negative environmental consequences. This rise in energy demand, combined with growing environmental concerns, has sparked interest in less polluting alternative fuels such as biodiesel. An enhanced soxhlet extraction process was used to extract oil from the seed of the baobab (Adansonia digitata). The seed oil yielded a respectable 49 percent. In a 250 ml three neck reaction flask, the oil was transesterified with 100% ethanol using KOH as a catalyst. The following were the best conditions for transesterification: a 12:1 ethanol-to-oil ratio, 1.0 wt% KOH, a reaction temperature of 50oC, and a reaction period of 90 minutes. At these conditions, the highest yield is 96 percent. All of the biodiesel quality metrics investigated in this study met American and British standards. Adansonia digitata seed oil appears to be a good feedstock for biodiesel production based on the biodiesel quality characteristics studied in this study.

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