Soybean oil transesterification over zinc oxide modified with alkali earth metals

Fuel Processing Technology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 631-638

  Yang, Zhenqiang ^a   Xie, Wenlei ^a  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Heterogeneous catalyst; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METALS; BIODIESEL; CATALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; FATTY ACIDS; ZINC OXIDE;

ANIMAL FATS; MOLAR RATIO; TETRAHYDROFURAN (THF); TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION;

VEGETABLE OILS;

EID: 34247229133     PISSN: 03783820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuproc.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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