Hybrid-coprecipitation vs. combustion synthesis of Mg-Al spinel based nanocatalyst for efficient biodiesel production

In this paper, hybrid-coprecipitation and combustion methods were used to synthesis MgAl2O4 spinel. Of interest was also to evaluate the effect of different synthesis methods on the characteristics and performance of MgO/MgAl2O4 catalyst in biodiesel production. Physicochemical characteristics of synthesized catalysts were evaluated by XRD, FESEM, surface particle size distribution (SPSD), EDX-Dot Mapping, BET-BJH and FTIR analysis. Moreover,...