Biodiesel Yield Assessment in Continuous-Flow Reactors Using Batch Reactor Conditions

Optimisation of Biodiesel Synthesis from Waste Cooking Oil in the Reactive Distillation Column Using Taguchi Methodology

“…The decrease in viscosity and relating increase in biodiesel conversion versus time was presented graphically in the literature. It was stated that the viscosity of the used oil of 30.73 cSt lowered to 3.30 cSt at the end of the reaction and remained constant at the relating conversion of 96.60% depending on the condition of parameters [24]. In another study, kinematic viscosities of biodiesel produced from three different canola oil were found to be 4.67, 5.01 and 4.64 mm 2 /s (cSt) at 40 o C [25].…”

Advantages of Process Integration Evaluated by Gibbs Energy: Biodiesel Synthesis Case

“…The experimental results of Agarwal et al (2013) demonstrate the suitability of integrating the mixing and the reaction: the residence times in a helical tube reactor and a reactive distillation column were 4 and 8 min, respectively, but in a batch reactor for the same yield was 1 h. When combining the mixing of reactants with the reaction operation in a single unit, then the mixing-reacting process can become spontaneous.…”

Comparative Studies on Biodiesel From Rubber Seed Oil Using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts

“…Perusal of the literature studied showed that several works had been performed for the production of bio-diesel (Satyanarayana and Muraleedharan (2010), Panchal et al (2010), Mohanraj, and Murugu Mohan Kumar (2013), Vedaraman et al (2011), Agarwal et al (2013) and Kabir et al(2013)) from various oils including rubber seed oil. However, only limited works had been done by employing both the catalyst in esterification process for the methyl ester production using rubber seed oil.…”