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11 years ago
I'm working on an assignment for Grade 12 Chemistry and I'm really lost and do not know where to start and what to do. I need to "design an experiment you could carry out to test the hypothesis that changing the catalyst has no effect on the production of biodiesel."

Your design must include the following parts:
• statement of problem being investigated
• list of variables with each identified as manipulated, controlled, or responding
description of how the experiment will be conducted
• description of how certain variables are controlled during the experiment
• identification of how you will determine a “result” in this experiment
• description of the experimental control for this investigation.
• description of how data collected from the experiment would be used to answer the research problem posed.
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11 years ago
That's a difficult problem. The statement (hypothesis) must be very specific: "Using sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, or potassium hydroxide has no effect on the production of biodiesel." You can figure out experimental design. Obviously, you are going to run three reactions with the only difference being the catalyst used.

There are a number of ways to monitor the reaction. I don't know what the industry uses, but you might use acid value, in-process IR, or gas chromatography. You can actually get an IR probe which enables you to monitor the reaction in real time. Look in your text book for the preferred way to monitor this reaction.

Hope this gets you a start at least.
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11 years ago
Use different catalysts and see what results you get.
princess001 Author
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11 years ago
Thanks for copying and pasting from yahoo answers. Even i could have got that I need serious help no joke
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11 years ago
Use different catalysts and see what results you get.

Hi princess001, this person is on to something though. Perhaps you should use this idea.
princess001 Author
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11 years ago
Potassium hydroxide??
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11 years ago
Sodium hydroxide is cheaper.
princess001 Author
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11 years ago
Thank you
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Educator
11 years ago
Then again, who cares. It's not like you're actually doing the experiment, are you?
princess001 Author
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11 years ago
not doing the experiment but have to write a lab
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11 years ago
not doing the experiment but have to write a lab

Okay, so mention both if you'd like and use varying concentrations of both.
princess001 Author
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11 years ago
Alriight thanks
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