Optimization Of Biodiesel Production From Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) Using ASPEN HYSYS
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Date
2021-06-01
Authors
Badli, Muhammad `Izzuddin
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Optimization of biodiesel production from waste cooking oil (WCO) using ASPEN
HYSYS has been presented in this thesis. Waste cooking oil (WCO) is chosen as the raw material
because about 40,000 tonnes per year of WCO produced in Asia countries such as China,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, India, etc. The other ways are to recycle the oil and
convert it into a new form of product which is biodiesel that will be useful to reduce the amount
of wastes and give the WCO a new life. The simulation was carried out to study the efficiency of
the biodiesel production from the membrane reactor since the main reference article use for this
project is using membrane reactor taken from “ASPEN HYSYS Simulation for Biodiesel
Production from Waste Cooking Oil using Membrane Reactor”. This project will further
optimize the biodiesel production using membrane reactor. The process flow diagram (PFD) is
also taken from the “ASPEN HYSYS Simulation for Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking
Oil using Membrane Reactor” and were used to simulate the result by using ASPEN HYSYS.
The research methodology for the simulation rely on the ASPEN HYSYS software. The list of
components for the simulation can be obtained from the HYSYS databanks. The fluid package for
the simulation is using NTRL method. The process flow diagram (PFD) for the simulation is
referring the article “ASPEN HSYS Simulation for Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking
Oil using Membrane Reactor”. The result was unable to obtained due to many errors occur
during conducting the simulation. The expected result from the hypotheses are the yield of the biodiesel
will increase as the temperature and pressure increase. The yield of biodiesel will also increase as
the reaction time increase. This study hasshown that the parameters such as temperature, pressure
and reaction time play an important role that affecting the yield of biodiesel. Moreover, it shows a
potential as new commercialize process due to the less waste is generated because no water is
needed to purify the final product.