Development of continuous processes for vegetable oil alcoholysis in microfluidic devices

Biodiesel can be produced from vegetable oils, animal fats, and waste cooking oils by transesterification with ethanol (also called ethanolysis) in order to substitute fossil fuels. In this work, we were interested in the transesterification reaction of sunflower oil with ethanol, which leads to eth...

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Main Authors: Richard Romain, Dubreuil Brigitte, Prat Laurent, Thiebaud-Roux Sophie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2013-01-01
Series:Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ocl.2012.0479

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