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Transesterification Performance of Acidic Group Modified Mesoporous MCM-41 Membrane

CHEN Li-hua, LI Zun-shan, GAO Li-jing, XU Wei, XIAO Guo-min   

  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
  • Received:2013-12-24 Online:2015-02-25 Published:2015-03-05

Abstract: MCM-41 with long range ordered hexagonal mesostructures was loaded on the surface of ceramic membranes (CM) successfully by in situ synthetic method. Then, the MCM-41/CM was modified by loading SO42-/ZrO2 in order to prepare solid acid catalyst SO42-/ZrO2/MCM-41/CM. The catalytic performance of the synthesized catalyst was evaluated by transesterification using palm oil and methanolas reactants. The results showed that the SO42-/ZrO2/MCM-41/CM had good catalytic activity with Zr(NO3)4 solution concentration of 0.4 mol/L, H2SO4 solution concentration of 2 mol/L, and calcination temperature of 550 ℃. The optimal reaction conditions for transesterification were as follows: catalyst amount (active components loaded ratio) 5%, reaction time 60 min, reaction temperature 100 ℃, methanol/palm oil molar ratio 10:1. The yield of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) is up to 92% under this condition.

Key words: MCM-41, zeolite membrane, SO42-/ZrO2, transesterification, fatty acid methyl ester (FAME)

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