Developing an environmentally friendly and high-quality of fuel from vegetable oil (triglycerides) have attracted a great attention among the researches. Deoxygenation reaction using Ca-based catalyst is a potentially promising element for removing an oxygen species from organic compounds and converting the molecule to hydrocarbon. Addition of transition metal in the catalysis synthesis studies not only could enhance the properties of the catalyst but also could tune the selectivity toward desired product. Cooperation of mesoporous support such as silica alumina (SA) exhibit unique and excellent properties (high surface area, high porosity) which simultaneously could increase the catalyst activity. In the present studies, a set of bifunctional acid-base supported on the highly mesoporous SA doped with Ca and Ni were synthesized. The Ca (NO)3 and Ni (NO)3 were impregnated on the mesoporous SA support and were calcined at 500 °C for 2 h in order to activate the synthesized catalyst. The physicochemical properties of the catalyst were characterized by X-Ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), X-Ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), temperature programme desorption carbon dioxide (TPD-CO2) and temperature programme desorption ammonia (TPD-NH3) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
