Data on calcium oxide and cow bone catalysts used for soybean biodiesel production

Fayomi O Sunday,Ayoola A Ayodeji,Igho E Blessing

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.057

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.03.057

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Journal: Data in Brief	Publication Date: Mar 17, 2018
Citations: 32	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Covenant University

Abstract

Biodiesel was produced from soybean oil using calcium oxide and cow bone as heterogeneous catalysts, through transesterification process. The soybean oil used was characterized using gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GCMS) and the cow bone catalyst produced was characterized X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer. The effects of the variation of methanol/oil mole ratio, catalyst concentration and reaction temperature on biodiesel yield during the transesterification of soybean oil were investigated. Reaction time of 3 h and stirring rate of 500 rpm were kept constant. Using Response Optimizer (Minitab 17), the optimum conditions for biodiesel production were established. It was observed that the calcination of cow bone catalyst enhanced its conversion to apatite-CaOH. Also, the results obtained showed that the performance trends of calcined cow bone catalyst and the conventional CaO catalyst were similar.

Highlights

Biodiesel was produced from soybean oil using calcium oxide and cow bone as heterogeneous catalysts, through transesterification process
Parameters varied during biodiesel production are methanol/oil mole ratio, catalyst concentration and reaction temperature
Determination of the elemental composition of unclacined and calcined cow bone catalysts involved the use of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis

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Data on calcium oxide and cow bone catalysts used for soybean biodiesel production Ayoola A. Article history: Received 25 January 2018 Received in revised form 28 February 2018 Accepted 13 March 2018 Available online 17 March 2018. Biodiesel was produced from soybean oil using calcium oxide and cow bone as heterogeneous catalysts, through transesterification process. The soybean oil used was characterized using gas chromatography mass spectrometer (GCMS) and the cow bone catalyst produced was characterized X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer. The effects of the variation of methanol/oil mole ratio, catalyst concentration and reaction temperature on biodiesel yield during the transesterification of soybean oil were investigated.

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Value of the data

Calcined cow bone

Findings

Soybean oil