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Biodiesel's Characteristics Preparation From Palm Oil, Tilani Hamid. S, Rachman Yusuf
Biodiesel's Characteristics Preparation From Palm Oil, Tilani Hamid. S, Rachman Yusuf
Makara Journal of Technology
Biodiesel’s characteristics preparation from palm oil. Using vegetable oils directly as an alternative diesel fuel has presented engine problems. The problems have been attributed to high viscosity of vegetable oil that causes the poor atomization of fuel in the injector system and pruduces uncomplete combustion. Therefore, it is necessary to convert the vegetable oil into ester (metil ester) by tranesterification process to decrease its viscosity. In this research has made biodiesel by reaction of palm oil and methanol using lye (NaOH) as catalyst with operation conditions: constant temperature at 60 oC in atmosferic pressure, palm oil : methanol volume ratio …