Event Title

Production of Biodiesel via Ozonolysis followed by Hydrocracking

Faculty Mentor

Kenneth McGill

Keywords

Kenneth McGill

Abstract

Biofuels are being synthesized by thermally hydrocracking peanut oil, and ozonated peanut oil. Peanut oil is composed of long hydrocarbon chains bound to a triester. Hydrocracking alone cleaves the triester to produce long carbon chains (C15-20) while ozonolysis and hydrocracking result in shorter alkanes (C6-12). In both cases water is the resulting byproduct. Characteristics of the resulting products were investigated. Future plans include using solar energy to fuel the reaction.

Session Name:

Poster Presentation Session #1 - Poster #49

Start Date

4-4-2014 11:30 AM

End Date

4-4-2014 12:15 PM

Location

HSB 3rd Floor Student Commons

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Production of Biodiesel via Ozonolysis followed by Hydrocracking

HSB 3rd Floor Student Commons

Biofuels are being synthesized by thermally hydrocracking peanut oil, and ozonated peanut oil. Peanut oil is composed of long hydrocarbon chains bound to a triester. Hydrocracking alone cleaves the triester to produce long carbon chains (C15-20) while ozonolysis and hydrocracking result in shorter alkanes (C6-12). In both cases water is the resulting byproduct. Characteristics of the resulting products were investigated. Future plans include using solar energy to fuel the reaction.