Study of Palm Oil Catalytic Cracking on ZSM-5 Zeolite for Production of Organic Liquid Product Using Response Surface Methodology

Authors

  • Chokchai Mueanmas Thaksin University

Abstract

This research aims to study the catalytic cracking process of refined palm oil with H+-Zeolite Socony Mobil-5 (HZSM-5) in fixed bed reactor. The influence of parameters which affect to the optimum condition that obtain the maximum percentage of organic liquid product (OLP) was investigated. The process parameters including temperature (400 – 600oC) and weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) (23.20 – 68.70 hr-1) were optimized by response surface methodology (RSM) with a central composite design (CCD). The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the statistic and developed to obtain the quadratic polynomial regression model. The results confirmed that the temperature was affecting the %OLP more than WHSV. The optimal conditions were temperature 480oC and WHSV 27.6 hr-1 and the experimental %OLP under condition was 51.5%, which was 91.5% of the predicted %OLP. The statistic results showed that %OLP significantly affected by the both studied factors and was well fitted by obtained equation. The results suggest that the predicted model data was in good with the experiment data. The OLP composition consists of olefin and paraffin fraction of 19.4% and 15.2%, respectively.                                               Keywords :  refined palm oil ; catalytic cracking process ; organic liquid product ; response surface methodology

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2022-09-06