Epoxidation of waste cooking oil using catalytic in situ generated performic acid

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Author: Rahman M.S.A.; Jalil M.J.; Muain M.; Gloria V.; Azmi I.S.; Hadi A.; Yamin A.F.M.; Morad N.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2020
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086760059&doi=10.1088%2f1755-1315%2f476%2f1%2f012143&partnerID=40&md5=d21d8bbbdb8a1464d193b1325b50bd23

Nowadays, utilizing renewable resources is one of the top research interests among researchers around the world in order to maintain the synthesis of products based on chemicals. Oleic acid (C18:1) derived from palm oil contains the unsaturated double bond (C=C) in its long alkyl chain makes it an attractive fatty acid for the production of eco-friendly epoxide. The epoxidation of waste cooking oil was carried out by using in situ generated performic acid (HCOOOH) to produce epoxidized oleic acid. Epoxy ring-opening also known as epoxide cleavage or epoxide ring degradation occurs in the epoxidation of vegetable oils. It is imperative to minimize process losses via ring-opening in order to achieve good yields and high peroxide values of the epoxidized vegetable oil. In this study, we analysed the effect of agitation speed, the effect of molar ratio of the formic acid to waste cooking oil and the effect of hydrogen peroxide to waste cooking oil molar ratio to epoxidation waste cooking oil. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.