Chemistry

Investigatory Project
On
Green Chemistry
By —
Khushi Saini
XII th Nalanda
Roll no. —
 Certificate

This is to certify that this “Chemistry Investigatory Project” has been successfully

completed by Khushi Saini of class XII th Nalanda under the guidance of Mrs. Nidhi

Srivastava in particular fulfilment of the curriculum of Indian Certificate of Secondary

Education ( ICSE).

Teacher’s signature

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 Acknowledgement

I have taken efforts in this project. However, it would not have been possible without

the kind support and help of many individuals.

I am highly indebted to my chemistry teacher, Mrs. Nidhi Srivastava for her invaluable

guidance which has sustained my efforts in all the stages of this project work.

I would also like to thank my parents for their continuous support and encouragement.

My thanks and appreciations also go to my fellow classmates and the laboratory

assistant in developing the project and to the people who have willingly helped me out

with their abilities.

 Index

S. No. Contents Page no.

1. Objective 5

2. Introduction to Green 6
Chemistry

3. Principles of Green 7-8

Chemistry

4. Bio diesel : Using 9-10

Renewable Resources

5. Activity: Making Bio 11-13

Diesel

6. Bio Petrol 14-17

7. Bibliography 18
 Objective

The objective of this project is to study Green Chemistry — Bio Diesel & Bio Petrol and

also to study Extraction process of Bio Diesel.

Green chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with developing processes and

products to reduce or eliminate hazardous substances. One of the goals of green

chemistry is to prevent pollution at its source, as opposed to dealing with pollution after

it has occurred.
 Principles of Green Chemistry —

❖ Prevention

It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created.

❖ Atom Economy

Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials

used in the process into the final product.

❖ Less Hazardous Chemical Synthesis

Wherever practicable, synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate

substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment.

❖ Designing Safer Chemicals

Chemical products should be designed to affect their desired function while minimizing

their toxicity.
 ❖ Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries

The use of auxiliary substances (e.g., solvents, separation agents, etc.) should be made

unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used.

❖ Design for Energy Efficiency

Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their

environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized. If possible, synthetic

methods should be conducted at ambient temperature and pressure.

❖ Use of Renewable Feed stocks

A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever

technically and economically practicable.

❖ Reduce Derivatives

Unnecessary derivatization (use of blocking groups, protection/ non-protection,

temporary modification of physical/chemical processes) should be minimized or avoided

if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste.

❖ Catalysis

Catalytic reagents (as selective as possible) are superior to stoichiometric reagents.

 INTRODUCTION

Bio-diesel is an eco-friendly, alternative diesel fuel prepared from domestic renewable

resources , i.e. , vegetable oils (edible or non- edible oil) and animal fats. These natural

oils and fats are made up mainly of triglycerides. These triglycerides when compared,

show striking similarity to petroleum derived diesel and are called “Bio – diesel”. As

India is deficient in edible oils, non-edible oil may be the material of choice for

producing bio diesel. For this purpose, Jatropha Curcas is considered as most potential

source for it. Bio diesel is produced by transesterification of oil obtained from the plant.

Jatropha Curcas has been identified for India as the most suitable Tree Borne Oil seed

(TBO) for production of bio-diesel both in view of the nonedible oil available from it and

its presence throughout the country. The capacity of Jatropha Curcas to rehabilitate

degraded or dry lands, from which the poor mostly derive their sustenance, by

improving land’s water retention capacity, makes it additionally suitable for upgradation

of land resources. Presently, in some Indian villages, farmers are extracting oil from

Jatropha and after settling and decanting it they are mixing the filtered oil with diesel

fuel. Although, so far the farmers have not observed any damage to their machinery, yet

this remains to be tested and PCRA is working on it. The fact remains that this oil needs

to be converted to bio-diesel through a chemical reaction - trans-esterification. This

reaction is relatively simple and does not require any exotic material. IOC (R&D) has

been using a laboratory scale plant of 100 kg/day capacity for trans-esterification;

designing of larger capacity plants is in the offing. These large plants are useful for

centralized production of bio-diesel. Production of bio-diesel in smaller plants of

capacity e.g. 5 to 20 kg/day may also be started at decentralized level.

 ACTIVITY : MAKING BIO DIESEL

Biodiesel is a mixture of methyl esters of fatty acids (long chain carboxylic acids). It has

similar properties to the diesel fuel made from crude oil that is used to fuel many

vehicles. It can be made easily from vegetable cooking oil that contains compounds of

fatty acids. Enough fuel can be produced in this activity to burn in a later activity,

although it is not pure enough to actually be used as fuel in a car or lorry. The synthesis

is a simple chemical reaction that produces biodiesel and propane-I,2,3-triol (glycerol).

Cooking oil is mixed with methanol and potassium hydroxide is added as a catalyst. The

products separate into two layers, with the biodiesel on the top. The biodiesel is

separated and washed, and is then ready for further experimentation.

➢ What you will need:

• Eye protection

• Access to a top pan balance

• One 250 cm3 conical flask

• Two 100 cm3 beakers

• One 100 cm3 measuring cylinder

• Five plastic teat pipettes

• Distilled or deionized water

• 100 cm3 vegetable-based cooking oil.

• 15 cm3 methanol (highly flammable, toxic by inhalation, if swallowed, and by skin

absorption).

• 1 cm3 potassium hydroxide solution 50% (corrosive).

➢ Safety Measures:

• Wear eye protection.

• Methanol is flammable and poisonous.

• Potassium hydroxide is corrosive.

➢ What to Do:

1) Measure 100 cm3 of vegetable oil into the 250 cm3 flask. Weigh the flask before and

after to determine the mass of oil you used.

2) Carefully add 15 cm3 of methanol.

3) Slowly add 1 cm3 of 50% potassium hydroxide.

4) Stir or swirl the mixture for 10 minutes.

5) Allow the mixture to stand until it separates into two layers.

6) Carefully remove the top layer (this is impure biodiesel) using a teat pipette.

7) Wash the product by shaking it with 10 cm of distilled or deionized water.

8) Allow the mixture to stand until it separates into two layers.

9) Carefully remove the top layer of biodiesel using a teat pipette.

10) Weigh the amount of biodiesel you have collected and compare it to the amount of

vegetable oil you started with.

 BIO – PETROL

Introduction:

Measures to be implemented to resolve the problem of sewage sludge that contain a

high degree of organic matter could primarily aim at recycling it through a

thermochemical pyrolysis process in order to recover hydrocarbons that make up the

structure of sewage sludge. Pyrolysis of sewage sludge produces oil, gas and char

products. The pyrolysis oils have also been shown to contain valuable chemicals in

significant concentrations and hence may have the potential to be used as chemical

feedstock. The production of a liquid product increases the ease of handling, storage

and transport. The technology, improved by Bio Petrol Ltd. (patent pending) is capable

of processing carbon wastes, other than sewage sludge, including agro-wastes, bagasse,

pulp and paper residues, tannery sludge and other end-of-life products such as plastics,

tires and the organics in municipal solid waste. The process of low temperature

thermochemical conversion of municipal sludge to oil a new technology in developed

countries. The amount of investment is still less than the amount invested in the sewage

sludge incineration and the operational economy of the process is obviously superior to

incineration. The Bio Petrol, Ltd. integrated thermochemical process (patent pending)

recovers about 1,100,000 Kcal from each 283 kg of sewage sludge 90% D.S. after the

thermal evaporating of 717kg water from each dewatered ton (1,000 kg) of sewage

sludge 26% D.S. The Bio Petrol process begins With sewage sludge at 90% D.S. Sewage
sludge drying equipment used commonly for the evaporative removal of interstitial

water from the sludge. Numerous drying technologies exist on the market.

Market Analysis and Strategy —

Three potential products services:

1. Disposal of Sewage Sludge — Disposal of sewage sludge comprises over 30% of

wastewater treatment plants' budget. Customers of this service are local

communities. They are willing to pay top dollar for the disposal of their sludge.

For example: Holland S50-S90 per ton, US., Canada and Australia, up to $150 per

ton. The US produces 25 million tons of sludge annually (2001).

2. Synthetic Crude Oil — Excess crude oil, beyond what being recirculated to run

equipment A+B about 30 kg per I-ton sewage sludge 90% DS. Oil energy = 8,900

Kcal/kg same diesel oil used in heavy industry. There are references in

professional literature to numerous valuable chemicals in significant

concentration that are present in pyrolysis oils. Bio Petrol Ltd has on board, as a

shareholder, an internationally renowned scientist-academician to address this

issue.

3. Selling the Technology - With the completion the development of the and

equipment for its operations , Bio Petrol. Ltd. will have the to sell to world

markets. Potential markets are water authorities, municipalities, wastewater

treatment plants, entrepreneurs, sewage sludge disposal contractors, sludge

drying operators.

Bio-Petrol Company has carried out R&D work which has resulted in the

formulation of a suitable process for producing synthetic oil from sewage with

larger output than that obtained from the common process ,i.e., pyrolysis. By

integrating familiar liquefaction methods, the company developed a process of

high utilization of the organic matter that in the sewage sludge that produces oil

and gas in larger quantities and of better quality.

What is Ethanol ?

Ethanol is part of a category of molecules called alcohols. The simplest alcohol is called

methanol and is very similar to a compound called methane. Methane is a molecule

composed of one carbon atom surrounded by 4 hydrogen atoms. In methanol, one of

these hydrogen atoms are replaced with an oxygen atom with a hydrogen atom

attached to it. This two atom group, oxygen attached to a hydrogen, is called an alcohol

group.

It's not a question of if we will stop using oil but when. Soon, we will all have to replace

oil with a different, renewable source and ethanol may be the answer.
 Bibliography

• https://www.icbse.com

• https://www.chemistry.org

• www.ott.doe.gov/biofuels/environment.html

• www.pcra.org

• Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA).

• https://www.en.wikipedia.org

• Class 12 Chemistry Lab Manual

• Survey of India etc.