UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ

Faculty of Technology, Leskovac

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
14th SYMPOSIUM
„NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT“

Leskovac, October, 22-23, 2021.

Faculty of Technology, Leskovac

Publisher: Faculty of Technology, Leskovac

For the Publisher: Prof. Dragiša Savić

Editor: Prof. Miodrag Lazić

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SYMPOSIUM with international participation "Novel Technologies and Economic

Development" (14 ; 2021 ; Leskovac)
Book of abstacts / 14 th Symposium [with international participation] "Novel Technologies
and Economic Development" Leskovac, October, 22-23, 2021. ; [organized by] Faculty of
Technology, Leskovac [and] Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Branch in Niš] ;
[editor Miodrag Lazić]. - Leskovac : Faculty of Technology, 2021 (Leskovac : Makos print). –
162 str. ; 25 cm

Na vrhu nasl. str.: University of Niš. - Tiraž 130. - Registar.

ISBN 978-86-89429-44-2

а) Технологија -- Апстракти б) Технолошки прогрес -- Привредни развој -- Апстракти

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Print: MAKOS-PRINT, Leskovac; 2021.

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ISBN 978-86-89429-44-2
14th Symposium with international participation "Novel Technologies and
Economic Development" was also supported by Ministry of Education, Science
and Technological Development Republic of Serbia.
14th Symposium with international participation
"Novel Technologies and Economic Development"
Organized by: Faculty of Technology, Leskovac
Co-organizer: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) - Branch in Niš

The Programme Committee:

Goran Nikolić, President, Leskovac, Serbia
Vlada Veljković, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts-Branch in Niš, Leskovac,
Serbia
Vesna Nikolić, Leskovac, Serbia
Ljubiša Nikolić, Leskovac, Serbia
Olivera Stamenković, Leskovac, Serbia
Nenad Ćirković, Leskovac, Serbia
Marija Stojanović Krasić, Leskovac, Serbia
Slobodan Petrović, Belgrade, Serbia
Branka Pilić, Novi Sad, Serbia
Ivan Ristić, Novi Sad, Serbia
Aleksandar Bojić, Niš, Serbia
Andrija Šmelcerović, Niš, Serbia
Borislav Milanović, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anita Tarbuk, Zagreb, Croatia
Karmina Miteva, Skopje, Republic of Northern Macedonia
Vimal Chandra Srivastava, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Luca Polleto, Padova, Italy
Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu, Bucharest, Romania
Ljubica Tasić, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Dejan Nikolić, Chicago, USA
Radmila Tomovska, Donostia-San Seastian, Espana

The Organizing Committee:

Dragiša Savić, President, Leskovac, Serbia
Vladimir Rakočević, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts-Branch in Niš, Niš, Serbia
Goran Cvetanović, Leskovac, Serbia
Nebojša Kocić, Leskovac, Serbia
Dragan Milenović, Leskovac, Serbia
Igor Denić, Leskovac, Serbia
Radojica Ristić, Leskovac, Serbia
Andrea Nutricato, Vlasotince, Serbia
Aleksandar Stojiljković, Leskovac, Serbia
Petar Stojanović, Grocka, Serbia
Miodrag Lazić, Leskovac, Serbia
Sreten Stojanović, Leskovac, Serbia
Nada Nikolić, Leskovac, Serbia
Jovan Stepanović, Leskovac, Serbia
Dušan Trajković, Leskovac, Serbia
Bojana Danilović, Leskovac, Serbia
Zoran Kostić, Leskovac, Serbia
Dejan Ranđelović, Leskovac, Serbia
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This work has been funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological
Development of the Republic of Serbia (Project assigned to the Faculty of Technology,
Leskovac, University of Niš, Research Group III 45001, No. 451-03-68/2020-14/200133). It is
also a part of the Project 0-14-18 of the SASA Branch in Niš, Serbia.

KINETIC MODELLING OF SUNFLOWER OIL METHANOLYSIS

CATALYZED BY WOOD ASH
1 1 2 1,3
Milan Kostić , Olivera Stamenković , Jugosla Krstić , Vlada Veljković
1
University of Niš, Faculty of Technology, Leskovac, Serbia
2
University of Belgrade – Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Belgrade,
Serbia
3
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Limited fossil fuel reserves and global warming problems cause a need to use
renewable energy sources. In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on
the use of biomass for the production of renewable fuels, such as bioethanol and
biodiesel. Special attention is focused on the utilization of wastes from various
industries and agricultural biomass residues (straw, corn cobs, seeds, and kernels of
various fruits and vegetables, etc.). In the present paper, the use of wood ash as a
catalyst in sunflower oil methanolysis was studied. The goals were determination of the
catalytic activity of wood ash and modelling the kinetics of methanolysis reaction using
a simple model that did not require complex computation.
The ash was obtained by burning wood in a local household stove. The ash was
characterized by determining its chemical composition (ICP-OES method), crystalline
forms (XRD method), and porosity (Hg intrusion porosimetry). The sunflower oil
methanolysis was performed in a batch reactor (250 mL) equipped with a magnetic
stirrer (900 rpm) and a condenser under atmospheric pressure. The reaction was
carried out at different methanol:oil molar ratios (9:1-15:1), catalyst concentrations (5-
o
15%, relative to oil mass), and 60 C.
The wood ash mainly consisted of Ca, K, and Si, which were present in crystalline
forms of CaO, K2O, and SiO2, respectively. It had a macroporous structure (average
2
pore diameter of 615 nm), total pore surface area of 5.84 m /g, total pore volume of
3
0.898 cm /g, and porosity of 63 vol.%. The kinetics of the methanolysis reaction was
described by the pseudo-first-order reaction model. The reaction rate constant
depends on the methanol and catalyst amounts and increases linearly with increasing
the methanol:oil molar ratio and the catalyst amount. The validity of the applied model
was confirmed by the low mean relative deviation value between the experimental and
calculated values of the triacylglycerols conversion degree (9.8% based on 125 data).

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