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Production of Glycerol-Free Biodiesel Using Pollen-Derived CaO Heterogeneous Catalyst

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Rape pollen with fishnet-like network structure has been used as support in the construction of high dispersion CaO materials assigned to CaO(P) (“P” was symbol of the precipitation method). Effect of various preparation conditions such as calcination temperature was evaluated following the performance for no-glycerol biodiesel preparation. The relatively well activity was observed by yielding to no-glycerol biodiesel of 92.69% in the rapeseed 1/1/8 mixture of oil–methyl acetate–methanol at 65 °C for 3 h over 10 wt% of 1/1-CaO(P)-700 which is better than 80% over commercial CaO. In addition, the catalytic performance of reused catalyst was also investigated. TGA–DSC and BET studies showed that the catalyst has good thermal stability and high surface area with hierarchical microstructures with large and mesopores on the surface, respectively. Furthermore, hierarchical basicity has been also established which provided various active sites for the heterogeneous reaction.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51974252), Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial (Program No. 2023-YBGY-052) and the Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi University. In addition, we thank the work of Modern Analysis and Testing Center of Xi’an Shiyou University.

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    Ying Tang, Meng Li & Ying Yang

  2. Xi’an Key Laboratory of Low-carbon Utilization for High-carbon Resources, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, China

    Ying Tang

  3. Xi’an Petroleum JARN (Industrial) Group Co., Ltd., Xi’an, China

    Guangtao Li & Yi Yang

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Tang, Y., Li, M., Li, G. et al. Production of Glycerol-Free Biodiesel Using Pollen-Derived CaO Heterogeneous Catalyst. Korean J. Chem. Eng. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-024-00212-3

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