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Article history: In the present work, rice husk-derived sodium silicate was prepared and employed as a solid catalyst for
Received 24 February 2016 simple conversion of oils to biodiesel via the transesterification reaction. The catalyst was characterized
Received in revised form 19 April 2016 by TG–DTA, XRD, XRF, FT-IR, SEM, BET and Hammett indicator method. Under the optimal reaction con-
Accepted 20 April 2016
ditions of catalyst loading amount of 2.5 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 12:1, the prepared catalysts
gave 97% FAME yield in 30 min at 65 °C, and 94% FAME yield in 150 min at room temperature. The trans-
esterification was proved to be pseudo-first order reaction with the activation energy (Ea) and the fre-
Keywords:
quency factor (A) of 48.30 kJ/mol and 2.775 106 min1 respectively. Purification with a cation-
Sodium silicate
Rice husk
exchange resin efficiently removed all soluble ions providing high-quality biodiesel product that meets
Heterogeneous catalyst all the ASTM and EN standard specifications. Rice husk-derived sodium silicate showed high potential
Transesterification to be used as a low-cost, easy to prepare and high performance solid catalyst for biodiesel synthesis.
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2.30 ppm. The factors 3 and 2 were derived from the number of perature resulted in a slightly lower surface area. Such difference is
attached protons at the methoxy and a-carbonyl methylene car- to be expected because at high temperature atoms in the small
bons, respectively [2,17]. particles could diffuse to the boundary and fuse the particles
In addition, the final biodiesel product was determined accord- together forming larger particles. Similar results were observed
ing to EN14214 standard method using a gas chromatograph (GC- in report of Lee et al. [3]. Although, all sodium silicate samples
2010, Shimadzu) and the example of the obtained GC chro- obtained from rice husk displayed low surface area, they show high
matogram is illustrated in Fig. S3 in the Supporting Information. basic strength as measured by Hammett indicator method which
The amount of sodium ion leached from the catalyst in the demonstrated H_ values in the range of 15.0–18.4 as evidenced
obtained biodiesel was analyzed by atomic absorption spectropho- by its coloration with 2,4-dinitroaniline (pKa = 15) but not with
tometry (AAS) [2,33]. 4-nitroaniline (H_ = 18.4). The total basicity of sodium silicate cat-
The obtained biodiesel product was filtered to separate catalyst, alyst obtained from rice husk was the order of calcined sample at
heated to remove excess methanol and treated with commercially 300 °C > 400 °C > 200 °C > 500 °C, respectively (Table 1). The strong
available cation-exchange resins (DowexÒ 50WX8) to eliminate basic strength and high basicity of the catalysts are correlated to
sodium ion [17]. The treated biodiesel were tested by American the catalytic activity of catalysts as catalysts with higher basic
Society for Testing and Material (ASTM D6751) methods and Euro- strength and basicity usually give higher biodiesel yield [4,28]. Ele-
pean Standard methods (EN14214) for bio-auto fuels [17,34,35]. mental analysis of all calcined samples with XRF spectroscopy indi-
cated that they were composed of mainly SiO2 and Na2O with
approximately 1% of other elements as shown in Table 1.
3. Results and discussion
3.2. Optimization of reaction conditions on the transesterification of
3.1. Catalyst characterization palm oil
Thermogravimetric analysis was used to determine the opti- 3.2.1. Effects of calcining temperature of catalysts
mum calcination temperature of the digested rice husk to prepare The effects of calcining temperature of rice husk-derived
RHA (Fig. S5 in the Supporting Information). As seen from Fig. S4, sodium silicate on the catalytic activity were evaluated. As shown
the weight loss occurred in the range of 30–400 °C which indicated in Fig. 4(a), FAME yield was only 84.39% when the sample was cal-
the removal of moisture and organic compounds such as cellulose, cined at 200 °C. This may be due to an incomplete conversion of
hemicelluloses and lignin. Based on TGA results, temperature at the sample to sodium silicate crystalline phase as indicated by
700 °C was chosen for calcining the digested rice husk to produce the low-intensity peaks in XRD pattern (Fig. 1(b)). XRD patterns
RHA [32]. The obtained RHA show low carbon content of 0.65 wt. of the sample calcined at 300, 400 and 500 °C exhibit clear and
%. The result indicated that the acid and thermal treatment of rice sharp peaks, indicating more crystallinity. As a consequence, bio-
husk can be produced the high purity of RHA. diesel yield was significantly increased to 98.04% when calcining
After boiled and dried, the mixture of RHA and NaOH was ana- temperature of the sample was increased from 200 to 300 °C. How-
lyzed by TG–DTA as shown in Fig. 2(a). There was only one major ever, a further increase in calcining temperature resulted in a
weight loss at below 200 °C which correspond to water molecules slightly decreased %FAME yield under the same reaction condition.
removal. Therefore, the temperature of 200, 300, 400, and 500 °C This reduction of %FAME yield was caused by the sintering effect
were selected to optimize the calcining temperature. As depicted during calcination which resulted in the lowering of surface area
in Fig. 2(b), the XRD pattern of RHA shows amorphous phase with (Table 1). As a result, the optimal calcining temperature to synthe-
a broad curve. On the other hand, mixture of RHA and NaOH trans- size sodium silicate catalysts from rice husk was 300 °C.
formed to sodium silicate after calcination as their XRD patterns
exhibit the characteristic peaks of Na2SiO3 crystalline phase (PDF 3.2.2. Effects of catalyst amount
00-016-0818). Similar results were also reported by Guo et al. [28]. The effects of catalyst loading amount on conversion of palm oil
The samples were analyzed by FT-IR spectroscopy as depicted to biodiesel were studied and displayed in Fig. 4(b). In transester-
in Fig. 2(c). Spectra of all the calcined samples showed strong broad ification mechanism, the basic sites of sodium silicate generate a
absorption bands at 999 cm1 and 884 cm1 corresponding to the reactive nucleophile (methoxide anion) from methanol which will
stretching vibrations of SiAO and SiAOASi, respectively. In addi- react with electrophilic carbonyl carbon of triglyceride to produce
tion, the absorption peaks at 510 cm1, 710 cm1 and 1465 cm1 biodiesel. Therefore, as the amount of catalyst increases, active
were assigned to SiAO bending, SiAOASi bending and Si@O basic site will generally increase and the biodiesel product is
stretching vibrations, respectively. These vibrations indicated the enhanced [3,21]. As a result, the biodiesel yield increased from
presence of SiAOASi linking structure thus confirmed the forma- 49.37% to 97.80% when the catalyst content was increased from
tion of sodium silicate [28,30]. In addition, broad peaks at 3000– 0.5 wt.% to 2.5 wt.%. However, beyond 2.5 wt.% of catalyst loading
3600 cm1 were attributed to SiAOAH stretching vibrations amount, the biodiesel yield did not increase due to the limitation
caused by the absorbed water molecules on the surface. The sur- of mass transfer and the high viscosity of the reaction mixture,
face morphology of sodium silicate calcined at 300 °C was studied both of which, lead to the problem of mixing each reactant compo-
by SEM as depicted in Fig. 2(d) which illustrates agglomerated and nent [15,16].
large particles size of few microns. The formation of methoxide species is very important in biodie-
N2 adsorption–desorption isotherm of all sodium silicate sam- sel production. In case of heterogeneous catalyzed reaction, the
ples derived from rice husk are displayed in Fig. 3(a)–(d). The methoxide species are formed on the surface of the catalysts. It
adsorption–desorption of all samples is a typical type II pattern is, therefore, very important that methanol is absorbed on the cat-
which is a characteristic of a nonporous or macroporous material alyst surface. This process depends on mass transfer of the metha-
based on IUPAC’s classification [36]. The large particles of about nol hence depends on how well the mixture which includes solid
few microns as seen from SEM image, the low BET surface area catalyst, liquid methanol, and oil are mixed [37,38]. In fact, it
and the low pore volume (Table 1) are all consistent with this clas- was found that methanol adsorption is the rate-determining step
sification as well. [39]. Loading the solid catalysts into the reaction mixture increases
The BET surface area of all samples was very similar. Neverthe- viscosity of the mixture making it more difficult to get proper
less, the slight difference can be observed as higher calcining tem- mixed. At one point, the advantage of having more catalysts in
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o
o
DTA curve 500 C
Intensity (a.u.)
-10 0.8
Weight loss %
o
400 C
-15 0.6
o
300 C
-20 0.4
o
200 C
-25 0.2
RHA
Na2SiO3
-30 0.0
50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70
o
Tempature ( C) 2 theta (degree)
Si-O-Si
Si-O
(c) Si-O-H
Si-O
Si-O-Si
710
510
(d)
999
3440 884
Si=O
o 1465
500 C
Transmission (a.u.)
o
400 C
o
300 C
o
200 C
Fig. 2. (a) TG/DTA curves of the resulting materials obtained from mixing and boiling the mixture of RHA and NaOH solution. (b) XRD patterns and (c) IR spectra of RHA and
calcined samples. (d) SEM image of the sodium silicate obtained from calcining the mixture of RHA and NaOH solution at 300 °C for 1 h.
the reaction will be outweighed by the drawbacks of poor mixing. slightly decreased biodiesel yield as the evaporated methanol
Therefore, the catalyst loading amount should be optimized and in inhibited the reaction on the three-phase interfaces namely liquid
this work, 2.5 wt.% catalyst loading was used to further optimize phase (palm oil), gas phase (methanol) and solid phase (catalysts)
transesterification condition. [18,42].
3.2.3. Effects of methanol to oil molar ratio 3.3. Effects of oil type
The effects of methanol to oil molar ratio on the biodiesel yield
were investigated. As illustrated in Fig. 4(c), the %FAME yield grad- Free fatty acid (FFAs) value (mg KOH/g oil) in the oil has a sig-
ually increased as the molar ratio of methanol to palm oil increased nificant effect on the biodiesel yield during transesterification
from 6:1 to 12:1. Further increase in the methanol to oil molar reaction because high FFAs content causes soap formation which
ratio beyond 12:1, slightly decreased the conversion of palm oil reduces catalyst activity [29,40,43]. Many kinds of oils containing
to biodiesel. At high methanol to oil molar ratio, the glycerol by- various amounts of FFAs namely palm oil, rice bran oil, coconut
product would dissolve in the excessive methanol and impede oil, lard oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, jatropha oil and waste cook-
the reaction of methanol with oil and catalyst. Additionally, the ing oil were used to investigate the effects of FFAs on the biodiesel
polar hydroxyl group in methanol behaves as emulsifier which yield as seen in Fig. 5. The results showed that type of oils did not
makes it more difficult to separate biodiesel product from the mix- have any effects on the FAME yield in this case as they all contain
ture resulting in the reduced %FAME yield [28,40,41]. In this case, only small amount of FFAs content. In all cases, the FAME yields
the optimum methanol to oil molar ratio was, therefore, 12:1, was maintained at over 93% even for jatropha and waste cooking
which was 4 times more than the required stoichiometric molar oil which have the highest FFAs.
ratio (3:1).
3.4. Reusability of the catalysts
3.2.4. Effects of reaction temperature
Reaction temperature is one of the most important parameters The reusability (without cleaning process) of rice husk-derived
which directly influence both the reaction rate and yield. In this sodium silicate catalyst was investigated using the optimized con-
work, effects of reaction temperature were examined by varying ditions. As illustrated in Fig. 6, %FAME yield was still higher than
from 45 °C to 75 °C with constant reaction time (30 min). As pre- 93% when the catalysts were reused for four times and the value
sented in Fig. 4(d), %FAME yield was increased from 42.32% to decreased to 83% after the fifth time. The possible reason for the
96.15% when reaction temperature increased from 45 °C to 65 °C. loss of catalytic activity was the leaching of active species
Further increase the temperature to over 65 °C which is above [44,45]. In this case, the AAS analysis was used to evaluate the lea-
the boiling point of methanol (64.7 °C at 1 atm) resulted in the ched sodium (Na) ions (Fig. 6). It is obvious from Fig. 6 that Na ion
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(a) (b)
0 0
28 200 C 28 300 C
3
20 20
16 16
12 12
8 8
4 4
0 0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
P/P0 P/P0
(c) (d)
0 0
28 400 C 28 500 C
Volume adsorped (cm /g STP )
3
20 20
16 16
12 12
8 8
4 4
0 0
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
P/P0 P/P0
Fig. 3. N2 adsorption/desorption plots of sodium silicate derived from rice husk with different calcining temperatures of (a) 200 °C, (b) 300 °C, (c) 400 °C and (d) 500 °C.
Table 1
Physicochemical properties of sodium silicate derived from rice husk calcined at different temperatures.
Sample BET surface area (m2/g) Pore volume (cm3/g) Total basicity (mmol/g) Element composition (%)
SiO2 Na2O Al2O3 MgO Other
Calcined at 200 °C 1.31 2.08 10.620 68.98 30.07 0.21 0.11 0.63
Calcined at 300 °C 1.14 1.39 11.298 68.96 30.10 0.22 0.12 0.60
Calcined at 400 °C 1.05 1.65 10.864 69.04 29.97 0.19 0.09 0.71
Calcined at 500 °C 0.95 1.30 9.962 69.05 30.01 0.19 0.09 0.66
was leached to the reaction mixture. The leaching decreased with the reaction mixture namely palm oil, biodiesel, glycerol and
reusing times but continue to occur. Although the catalysts methanol may cover the surface of the catalysts [3,17].
remained active with some leaching in the first four runs, the activ- Although leaching of Na ions from the catalysts seem to be the
ity decreased after five times. It is believed that the catalysts were major cause of efficiency reduction of the catalysts in the transes-
able to function with some degree of Na loss but when Na contin- terification reaction, the catalysts could be regenerated just by a
ued to leach, the catalysts will eventually deactivated. reaction with NaOH. Guo et al. [30] presented that the first, second
Fig. 7(a) compares XRD profiles of fresh catalysts and catalysts and third time regenerated catalysts still performed excellently to
that have been used for 9 times. The sharpness of diffraction peaks give over 96.5% biodiesel yield. Hence, the possibility of using rice
is lower in the used catalysts indicating loss of crystalline phases husk-derived sodium silicate as a high potential, low-cost and
during the reaction possibly due to Na leaching. In addition, FT- renewable catalysts are high.
IR spectra in Fig. 7(b) support the structure change of sodium sili-
cate by showing absorption bands at 710 cm1 and 884 cm1 with 3.5. Catalytic activity comparison of rice husk-derived sodium silicate,
lower intensity, relating to lower number of SiAOASi bonds. In CaO and NaOH
contrast, absorption bands at 999 cm1 and 1465 cm1 which cor-
respond to SiAO bending and Si@O stretching vibrations have Fig. 8 shows comparison of catalytic performance of rice husk-
increased intensity, confirming that some SiAOASi bonds were derived sodium silicate, CaO analytical grade (AR), CaO derived
broken down during the reusing processes of the catalysts from eggshell (heterogeneous catalyst) and NaOH (homogeneous
[28,30]. Furthermore, the broader absorption band at 3440 cm1 catalyst) under optimized reaction conditions. The results showed
(SiAOAH stretching) in the used catalysts indicates that sodium that FAME yield reached 96% within 15 min when NaOH catalyst
silicate catalyst reacted with water molecules in the reactants was used, while the reaction catalyzed by rice husk-derived
(palm oil and methanol) which is to be expected as the reaction sodium silicate showed FAME yield of 97% after 30 min. For the
was carried out in an open air. In addition, liquid compounds in reaction catalyzed by CaO both analytical grade (AR) and derived
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% FAME
% FAME 60 60
40 40
20 20
0 0
200 300 400 500 0 1 2 3 4 5
Calcination temperature (°C) Catalyst loading (wt%)
(c) (d)
100 96.15 100
92.17 93.02
80 77.33 80
% FAME
60 60
% FAME
40 40
20 20
0 0
6 9 12 15 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
Methanol/oil molar ratio Temperature (°C)
Fig. 4. Effect of reaction conditions on %FAME yield. (a) Calcination temperature of catalyst (catalyst loading 2 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 9:1, 60 °C and reaction time of
30 min). (b) Catalyst loading amount (calcined the catalyst at 300 °C, methanol/oil molar ratio of 9:1, 60 °C and reaction time of 30 min). (c) Methanol to oil molar ratio
(calcined the catalyst at 300 °C, catalyst loading 2.5 wt.%, 60 °C and reaction time of 30 min). (d) Reaction temperature (calcined the catalyst at 300 °C, catalyst loading 2.5 wt.
%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 12:1 and reaction time of 30 min).
100
100 300
60
coconut 0.28
40 palm 0.32 150
lard 0.42
waste cooking 2.31 40
20 jatropha 1.31 100
20 FAME
0 50
Sodium content
ja kig
su ran
lm
as lard
so er
t
co n
ha
nu
ea
w
op
o
pa
co
b
yb
co
lo
tr
ce
nf
0 0
te
ri
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
w
(a) (b)
Si-O-Si Si-O
710 510
Si-O-Si
884
fresh
Transmission (a.u.)
Si=O
Intensity (a.u)
1465
Si-O
999
fresh Si-O-H
3440
th
after 9 reuse
th
after 9 reuse
20 30 40 50 60 70 80 4000 3000 2000 1000
-1
2 theta (degree) Wavenumber (cm )
Fig. 7. (a) XRD patterns and (b) IR spectra of rice husk-derived sodium silicate catalyst after 9th reuse compared with fresh the catalyst.
100 100
80 80
60 60
% FAME
% FAME
40 40
NaOH
rice husk-derived Na 2SiO3
20 20
CaO_AR NaOH
CaO_eggshell rice husk-derived Na2SiO3
0 0
0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240
reaction time (min) reaction time (min)
Fig. 8. Comparison of catalytic efficiency of rice husk-derived sodium silicate Fig. 9. Comparison of catalytic performance between rice husk-derived sodium
against CaO and NaOH. Reaction condition of rice husk-derived sodium silicate: silicate and NaOH under room temperature conditions. Reaction condition of rice
calcined the catalyst at 300 °C, catalyst loading 2.5 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of husk-derived sodium silicate: calcined the catalyst at 300 °C, catalyst loading
12:1 and 65 °C. Reaction condition of CaO_AR and CaO_eggshell as calcined the 2.5 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 12:1. Reaction condition of NaOH: catalyst
catalyst at 800 °C for 3 h [22]: catalyst loading 6 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of loading 0.75 wt.% and methanol/oil molar ratio of 6:1 [47].
15:1 and 65 °C [17]. Reaction condition of NaOH: catalyst loading 0.75 wt.%,
methanol/oil molar ratio of 6:1 and 60 °C [45].
plify the kinetic modeling, the reaction could be assumed pseudo-
first order and the reaction rate can be explained by Eq. (2). In this
CaO may easily be packed by the glycerol by-product which inhib- case, excess methanol was used to shift the reaction equilibrium
ited CH3O generation by interrupting the contact between metha- towards the product thus the reverse reduction is insignificant
nol and basic sites of CaO. and will not be taken into account [17,50,51].
In addition, the room-temperature transesterification reaction
of palm oil catalyzed by rice husk-derived sodium silicate and
NaOH catalysts were investigated as shown in Fig. 9. It was clear 5
that biodiesel yield reached 96% after 90 min (1.5 h) for reaction rice husk-derived Na 2SiO3
catalyzed by NaOH, while the reaction catalyzed by rice husk-
4 CaO_AR
derived sodium silicate gave 94% FAME yield after 150 min
(2.5 h). Reducing production temperature and time means reduc-
ing the production cost. Generally, the use of heterogeneous cata- 3
-ln (1-X ME)
Fig. 10. Comparison of kinetics study between using rice hush-derived sodium
To determine the kinetics of transesterification reaction, the silicate and CaO_AR catalyst under the same reaction condition (reaction condition:
effects of reaction temperature and time were investigated. To sim- catalyst loading 2.5 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 12:1 and 65 °C).
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(a) 5 (b)
o
30 C -2.5
o
4 40 C
o
50 C
o -3.0
-ln (1-X ME) 60 C
3
ln k
-3.5
2
Slope = -5.80897
-4.0 Interept = 14.8362
1
-4.5 Ea = 48.30 KJ/mol
A = 2.775 x 10 min
6 -1
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3
3 -1
Time (min) 1/T x 10 (K )
Fig. 11. (a) ln½1 xME versus reaction time plot at different temperatures; reaction condition: catalyst loading amount of 2.5 wt.%, methanol/oil molar ratio of 12:1. (b)
Arrhenius plot ln k versus 1/T 103 (K1) for transesterification of palm oil using rice husk-derived sodium silicate.
Table 2
Fuel properties of biodiesel obtained from transesterification reaction under optimum condition catalyzed with rice husk-derived sodium silicate after purification and treatment
process.
ln½1 xME ¼ k t ð4Þ The physicochemical properties of the biodiesel obtained from
transesterification of palm oil catalyzed by rice husk-derived
By fitting the experimental data to Eq. (4), the slope is equal to sodium silicate after purification with a cation-exchange resin to
rate constant (k) which depends on reaction temperature. The remove all soluble ions were measured by ASTM and EN14214
Arrhenius plot of lnk versus T1 in Eq. (5) can be used to calculate standard methods for bio-auto fuels and shown in Table 2. The pro-
the activation energy (Ea) and frequency factor (A) for the transes- duced biodiesel has high quality standard properties which are
terification reaction. within the standard limits in terms of methyl ester content, den-
sity, viscosity, flash point, acid value, water content, oxidation
Ea 1
lnk ¼ þ lnA ð5Þ number, total contamination, copper strip corrosion, cloud point,
R T
pour point, sulfated ash carbon residue and ion content. Conse-
R is the gas constant (8.314 J mol1 K1) and T is the reaction tem- quently, all results in this work indicated that the low-cost rice
perature (K) [51]. husk-derived sodium silicate catalysts demonstrate good catalytic
Fig. 10 compares rate constant (k) of reaction using rice husk- performance for biodiesel production and should be further pro-
derived sodium silicate that obtained from CaO_AR catalysts under moted in industrial applications.
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