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Boosting biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil water using Acid-Base Sequential Catalysis

by Chinedu N.B. Nkwoada A.U. Opara A.I.

Issue 6

Solid Waste Management

The use of active and recyclable catalysts is advantageous for catalytic biodiesel synthesis from waste vegetable oils which is in demand owing to frequent calls on environmental pollution and for clean renewable energy production. For this study, homogenous catalysts are effective at converting...

Biodiesel Transesterification +3 more
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Determination of phenolic compounds in industrial wastewaters by gas chromatography after extraction and preconcentration by microextraction procedure

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M.A. Farajzadeh et al. View all

Issue 1

Air pollution and health

This paper presents an efficient, simple, and fast method for the derivatization, extraction, and preconcentration of several phenolic compounds (phenol, o–, m– and p–cresol, 4–chlorophenol, and 2–nitrophenol) from wastewater samples and analysis of those samples by gas chromatography–flame...

Dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction Homogenous liquid–liquid extraction +4 more
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