due to rapid depletion of the fossil fuel reserves and environmental concerns biodiesel has attracted a
great deal of attention over the last few decades. In this study, heterogeneous catalysts derived from
waste chicken bones were employed in the transesterification reaction of waste cooking oil for biodiesel
production. The physicochemical properties of the synthesized catalysts were studied by various techniques such as differential thermal analysis/thermogravimetric analysis (DTAeTGA), BET surface area, Xray diffraction (XRD), temperature programmed desorption of CO2 (TPDeCO2), energy dispersive X-ray
(EDX) spectroscopy. The experimental results showed that the heterogeneous catalyst calcined at 900 C
exhibited good catalytic activity in the transesterification of WCO, providing maximum biodiesel yield of
89.33% at 5.0 g of catalyst loading, 15:1 methanol to oil molar ratio at temperature of 65 C in reaction
time of 4 h. The better catalytic activity of the aforementioned catalyst in the biodiesel reaction could be
attributed to the presence of optimal number of catalytically active basic site density on its surface.
Moreover, the catalyst was successfully recycled for 4 times for biodiesel production.