Supercritical Transesterification of Palm Oil and Hydrated Ethanol in a Fixed Bed Reactor with a CaO/Al2O3 Catalyst

Supercritical Transesterification of Palm Oil and Hydrated Ethanol in a Fixed Bed Reactor with a CaO/Al2O3 Catalyst

Biodiesel production from palm oil and hydrated ethanol in a fixed bed reactor using CaO/Al2O3 as the catalyst was investigated and optimized using response surface methodology. The investigated parameters were temperature, pressure, ethanol/palm oil molar ratio, residence time and total mass flow r...

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Main Authors: Ruengwit Sawangkeaw, Somkiat Ngamprasertsith, Pornicha Tejvirat, Chawalit Ngamcharassrivichai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-04-01
Series:Energies
Subjects:
biodiesel
fuel properties
hydrated ethanol
supercritical transesterification
calcium oxide
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/5/4/1062/

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