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Dominated Effect Analysis of the Channel Size of Silica Support Materials on the Catalytic Performance of Immobilized Lipase Catalysts in the Transformation of Unrefined Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel

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Three mesoporous silica materials with various channel sizes and structures were employed to prepare immobilized lipase catalysts for the transesterification of unrefined wasted cooking oil (UWCO) to biodiesel at room temperature. The channel size of support material was found to be the key point to obtain high initial specific activity and high sustainability of activity of the immobilized lipase catalysts. A SBA-15 material with appropriate channel size (14.0 nm) demonstrates the best capacity of lipase. The immobilized catalyst with the SBA-15 material shows much higher activity and sustainability of activity than the immobilized catalysts with a MCM-41 material (channel size 1.8 nm) and a mesostructured cellular foam (MCF) material (channel size 28.0 nm) as support materials in the transformation of UWCO to biodiesel. After 60 h of reaction at 28 °C, a fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) yield up to 80.1 and 71.8 % of initial specific activity can be achieved using SBA-15-immobilized lipase.

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The authors are grateful for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC U1362105, 21306233), the Science Research Project (KJ130729, KJ130702) of Chongqing Education Commission, the Chongqing Science and Technology Foundation (cstc2013jcyjA50007, cstc2014yykfB90002, jcsf121-2012-02-1), and the Chongqing 100 leading scientists promotion project.

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  1. Engineering Research Centre for Wasted Oil Recovery Technology of Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Catalysis Science and Technology, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, 400067, China

    Haidong Zhang, Yu Zou, Yu Shen, Xue Gao, Xuxu Zheng & Xianming Zhang

  2. Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 401122, China

    Yu Shen, Youpeng Chen & Jinsong Guo

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Zhang, H., Zou, Y., Shen, Y. et al. Dominated Effect Analysis of the Channel Size of Silica Support Materials on the Catalytic Performance of Immobilized Lipase Catalysts in the Transformation of Unrefined Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel. Bioenerg. Res. 7, 1541–1549 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-014-9492-y

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