Transesterification of Triolein to Biodiesel Fuel over Mordenite-supported CaO Catalysts

摘要

CaO catalysts supported on several metal oxides and zeolites were investigated for transesterification of triolein with methanol. Zeolite-supported CaO catalysts showed high catalytic activity for transesterification compared to the metal oxide-supported CaO catalysts; among the zeolites tested in this work, mordenite exhibited the best support. The catalytic activity of mordenite-supported CaO catalyst depended on both the amount of CaO loading and the calcination temperature for catalyst precursor.