Monday, 10 December 2007

FYP Lab: 6 months of Sweat

After spending 6 months doing my FYP, "Biodiesel Preparation via Enzymatic Transesterification of Vegetable Oil" (Let me translate it, it means to produce biodiesel from vegetable oil using a reaction method called transesterification in the presence of enzymes), I am pls to say that all this is abt to end soon on 31.12.07 Mon.
The main reactants for transesterification: N-butanol, Candida antarctica lipase B (CALB), Palm Oil

Rotary Evaporator to remove N-butanol


Vacuum Purge Oven to remove traces of water or n-butanol

Oil bath in which transesterification takes place in a reaction tube

View outside the lab of WS2


View of my lab

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