W. Ivwurie

Comparative Analysis of the Quality of Petroleum Products from Different Sources in Sapele, Delta State, Nigeria

W. Ivwurie & E. Ohawa · Chemical Science International Journal · 2022

Background: Adulteration is the illegal addition of any foreign substance into motor Gasoline / high speed diesel. Adulteration maybe due to a long storage period. fuel quality can widely evolve and be different from its initial quality. Aim: Physicochemical analysis was carried...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/CSJI/2022/v31i330282

Biodiesel Production from Human Faeces via Soxhlet Extraction with Hexane and Transesterification Reaction

W. Ivwurie & D. Odiganma · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2020

Oil/lipid was extracted from a primary sewage sludge by soxhlet extraction using n-hexane as the solvent. The extracted oil was then converted to biodiesel using transesterification process. The physicochemical properties of the oil/lipids and biodiesel were then determined and c...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jabb/2020/v23i730165

The Production of Biodiesel from Sewage Sludge Via Soxlet Extraction Using Hexane and Ethyl Acetate in Ratio 2:1 As the Organic Solvent and Transesterification Reaction

W. Ivwurie & B. Okoro · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2020

The Lipid/oil was extracted from reduced dried primary sewage sludge particle using soxhlet extraction method with Hexane and Ethyl Acetate in the ratio 2:1 as the extracting solvent. The extracted oil gave 15.03% percentage yield with density of 0.845 g/ml, pH value of 8.97, spe...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jabb/2020/v23i630163