Facile Preparation of β-Cyclodextrin-Fe3O4 Magnetic-Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquid for Biodiesel Production

• DOI: 10.1007/s12649-018-0506-4
• Publication Date: 2018-11-22T06:29:34Z
• Authors: Fei Chang; Quan Zhou
• Keywords: 0211 other engineering and technologies; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Bronsted acidic ionic liquid supported on magnetic Fe3O4 [β-CD-6-Im-(CH2)3-HSO3][HSO4]-Fe3O4 was synthesized successfully, the catalyst was characterized via TGA, FT-IR, XRD, SEM, BET and acidity determination, and used to catalyze the high-acidic untreated Jatropha carcass L. seed crude oil (46.0 mg KOH/g) for biodiesel production in a single pot. The results showed that 94.70% yield of FAME was obtained under the optimized reaction conditions of temperature of 130 °C, 10:1 molar ratio of methanol to oil, 3 wt% of catalyst dosage, 3 h reaction time. In addition, the catalyst activity was not significantly decreased after five recycles.