Calcium ethoxide as a solid base catalyst for the transesterification of soybean oil to biodiesel

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1313-1317

  Liu, Xuejun ^a   Piao, Xianglan ^a   Wang, Yujun ^a   Zhu, Shenlin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIODIESEL; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CATALYSIS; ESTERIFICATION; ETHANOL; METHANOL;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHOXIDE; INSTRUMENTAL METHODS; MASS RATIOS; MOLAR RATIOS; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENTS; REACTION CONDITIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; SOLID BASE CATALYSTS; SOYBEAN OILS; SURFACE AREAS;

CALCIUM;

EID: 42049102073     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef700518h     Document Type: Article

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