Kwame Nkrumah University of

Science & Technology, Kumasi,

Ghana

Conversion Of Palm Nut To

Biodiesel In Begoro

Amo Yeboah Maspolic

3201320
Petrochemical Engineering
College of Engineering
 Outline
 Introduction

 Aims And Objective

 Suggested Solution

 Processes

 Recommendations

 Conclusions

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 Introduction

 Red palm fruits has many uses such as palm oil

and palm kernel oil
 We get nutritive vitamins and antioxidants
 Income to farmers and revenue to the state

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 Aims And Objectives

 To convert palm oil to biodiesel in Begoro community

 To sensitize the public on other relevance of palm fruits

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 Suggested Solution
 Production of biodiesel through transesterification
reaction

A simple transesterification reaction

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 Process
 Treatment of raw materials

 Alcohol-catalyst mixing

 Chemical reaction by heating

 Separation of reaction products

 Purification of reaction products

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 Process cont’d

• A fig. showing the stages of Biodiesel production

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 Recommendation
 I recommend that more investigations are carried out by
• By government agencies

• Corporate organizations

 The general public should be enlightened on the

benefits of biodiesel

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 Conclusion

 The usefulness of palm fruits can be extended

 Biodiesel is renewable
 Reduction in diesel fuel dependency

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