DOI : https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.3.2.304

Thermally Activated Palm Kernel Based Carbon as a Support for Edible Oil Hydrogenation Catalyst

Abdulmajid Alshaibani (1), Zahira Yaakob (2)
(1) Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Tel No.: 0060389216420, Bangi, Malaysia.
(2) Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Tel No.: 0060389216420, Bangi, Malaysia.
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Alshaibani, Abdulmajid, and Zahira Yaakob. “Thermally Activated Palm Kernel Based Carbon As a Support for Edible Oil Hydrogenation Catalyst”. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 3, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 164-7, doi:10.18517/ijaseit.3.2.304.
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Activated carbon has distinctive properties as a support for hydrogenation catalysts. Thermally activated carbon has been prepared from palm kernel shell at 1073 K and placed under nitrogen flow for 2 h. It was impregnated by palladium using toluene solution of Pd (acac)2. The Pd/C was reduced using a water solution of potassium borohydride (KBH4). The Pd-B/C was characterized by the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area analysis (BET), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Pd-B/C was applied for sunflower oil hydrogenation at a temperature of 373 K, hydrogen pressure of 413.5 kPa and agitation of 1400 rpm for 1 h. Pd-B/C noticeably exhibited a higher overall catalyst activity in comparison to some recently published palladium catalysts.

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