Abstract
Objective of current study is the synthesis of biodiesel from salvia mirzayanii oil using phosphomolybdic acid (H3PMo12O40, HPA) supported on the clinoptilolite-Fe3O4. The prepared catalyst properties were determined by different analyses including FESEM, EDX, TEM, FTIR, and VSM, and its performance was studied in the process of biodiesel production. Four key factors effects like reaction time, catalyst weight, methanol to oil molar ratio, and temperature were investigated and optimized by the Taguchi method. In this method, the significance of effective factors on the biodiesel yield is controlled by analysis of variance (ANOVA). The highest biodiesel yield was found 80% at operating conditions of 0.5 wt.% HPA/clinoptilolite-Fe3O4 catalyst, methanol/oil ratio of 12:1, and temperature of 75 °C at 8 hours. The GC-MS analysis identified the fatty acid profile of salvia mirzayanii oil and biodiesel, the FTIR spectrum was performed to ensure biodiesel formation from the final product. The H-NMR analysis compared the properties of oil and biodiesel. The physicochemical properties of the produced biodiesel revealed that the biodiesel has the same properties as the diesel...