Print Email Facebook Twitter Environmentally benign solid catalysts for sustainable biodiesel production Title Environmentally benign solid catalysts for sustainable biodiesel production: A critical review Author Alagumalai, Avinash (GMR Institute of technology, Andra Pradesh) Mahian, Omid (Xi’an Jiaotong University; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) Hollmann, F. (TU Delft BT/Biocatalysis) Zhang, Wuyuan (Chinese Academy of Sciences; National Technology Innovation Center of Synthetic Biology, Tianjin) Date 2021 Abstract Versatile bio-derived catalysts have been under dynamic investigation as potential substitutes to conventional chemical catalysts for sustainable biodiesel production. This is because of their unique, low-cost benefits and production processes that are environmentally and economically acceptable. This critical review aspires to present a viable approach to the synthesis of environmentally benign and cost-effective heterogeneous solid-base catalysts from a wide range of biological and industrial waste materials for sustainable biodiesel production. Most of these waste materials include an abundance of metallic minerals like potassium and calcium. The different approaches proposed by researchers to derive highly active catalysts from large-scale waste materials of a re-usable nature are described briefly. Finally, this report extends to present an overview of techno-economic feasibility of biodiesel production, its environmental impacts, commercial aspects of community-based biodiesel production and potential for large-scale expansion. Subject Bio-derived catalystBiodieselBiofuelBiowasteE-factor assessmentIndustrial waste To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:884884af-e8be-4cfc-9c97-584da261b7e3 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144856 Embargo date 2021-11-10 ISSN 0048-9697 Source Science of the Total Environment, 768 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type review Rights © 2021 Avinash Alagumalai, Omid Mahian, F. Hollmann, Wuyuan Zhang Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0048969720383893_main.pdf 4.16 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:884884af-e8be-4cfc-9c97-584da261b7e3/datastream/OBJ/view