I am doing my proposal for master theses can you advice me to get new catalyst work on west cooking oil
This is such a broad question, it's actually hard to answer.
Start by pre-treating the waste oil.
The classic approach is to do a Fischer Speir esterification (acid catalyzed) on the FFA's (free fatty acids) followed by a base-catalyzed transesterification (ideally with dry NaOMe or KOMe or the like). This is a rock solid approach and scales well to millions of gallons/yr.
If it's more researchy and less industrial - microwave assisted esterification is quick and versatile.
If it's more data driven - monophasic approaches (e.g. with THF cosolvent) are FAST, but hampered by water even more.
That's probably enough to get started down the right track.
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