Comparative study on optimized biofuels production from cooked sunflower oil using potassium hydroxide and sodium methoxide catalysts

The primary objective of this research is to find the best way to convert spent cooking sunflower oil into biofuels, using base catalysed development in conjunction with potassium hydroxide and new sodium methoxide. Procedures and Materials: The study examined the generation of biofuels using a variety of factors, including catalyst concentration, temperature, reaction time, oil ratio, and base catalyst potassium hydroxide and new sodium methoxide. Group 1 in this study served as a control and consisted of potassium hydroxide (20 samples), whereas Group 2 served as an experimental group using novel sodium methoxide (20 samples). Twenty samples were used for each group, for a total of forty, and the generation of biofuels was determined using certain criteria. Using a G-power of 80%, the correct sample size was determined. The findings demonstrated that the optimal values for the base catalyst potassium hydroxide were 42%, while the value for the base catalyst new sodium methoxide was 44%. This was due to the fact that the different parameters were combined. The innovative sodium methoxide has a lower mean (42.2050) than the biofuel generation from the basic catalyst of potassium hydroxide (44.6420). The two sets of catalysts in this investigation were found to have statistically significant differences, as indicated by the two-tailed significant p values of 0.004 (p