Zahira Yaakub
National University of MalaysiaMalaysia
Nanogold Loaded, Nitrogen Doped TiO2 Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Aquatic Pollutants Under Sun Light
By Zahira Yaakob, Anila Gopalakrishnan, Silija Padikkaparambil, Binitha N. Narayanan and Resmi M. Ramakrishnan
Part of the book: Solar Power
Electrocoagulation for Treatment of Industrial Effluents and Hydrogen Production
By Ehsan Ali and Zahira Yaakob
Part of the book: Electrolysis
Jatropha Curcas L. Biomass Waste and Its Utilization
By Sri Rizki Putri Primandari, A.K.M. Aminul Islam, Zahira Yaakob and Swapan Chakrabarty
Jatropha curcas L. is cultivated for its oil utilization as fuel feedstock. This main purpose is achieved with the biomass waste after oil extraction. The biomass wastes are leaf and stem from pruning, fruit hull, seed husk, and oily-cake. This paper discusses the utilization of the waste in order to achieve zero waste of jatropha and develop the jatropha utilizations. Jatropha waste is also utilized as fertilizer, briquettes, adsorbent, resin, and bioactive compost. It can also be utilized as feedstock for production of polymer composite, combustion for gasifier, biogas, liquid oil, and dye. These wide utilizations make jatropha very suitable for biofuel proposes.
Part of the book: Advances in Biofuels and Bioenergy
Non-Edible Vegetable Oils as Renewable Resources for Biodiesel Production: South-East Asia Perspective
By Abul Kalam Mohammad Aminul Islam, Sri Rizki Putri Primandari and Zahira Yaakob
Biodiesel derived from plant species has been a major renewable source of energy and has received global interest mainly due to climate change issue. It has increasingly received worldwide attention as a promising alternative fuel. Growing interest in biodiesel production from edible oil brings scarcity in food supply. To overcome this problem, utilization of non-edible oils could be explored. Non-edible oil as biodiesel feedstock impressed in many factors such as energy sustainability and independence in certain areas, especially in rural community, creating job opportunities, elevating environmental merits, and avoiding monoculture of fuel resources. The present chapter reviews several such potentials, including fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) or biodiesel production process of non-edible oil resources as biodiesel feedstock in South-East Asian geographical region. The South-East Asian countries fall in the tropical region of the world and have many species as non-edible oil, viz., jatropha, karanja, polanga, neem, rubber, and mahua. The oils derived from these species have shown considerable potential as biodiesel feedstock.
Socrates Kaplanis
Eleni Kaplani
Yong Ding
Chongqing University, China
Zhian Sun
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
Can Coskun
Gonzalez-Garcia
Rafael Almanza
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Sergio Vazquez-Montiel
Agustin Santiago-Alvarado
Graciela Castro-Gonzalez