Biodiesel production from oil using potassium carbonate as an unsupported catalyst

International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baroi, Chinmoy ^a   Yanful, Ernest K ^a   Bergougnou, Maurice A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; FTIR ATR; Jatropha curcas oil; Transesterification

Indexed keywords

BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS ASHES; CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY; FT-IR-ATR; JATROPHA CURCAS; JATROPHA CURCAS OIL; MOLAR RATIO; POTASSIUM CARBONATES; REACTION TEMPERATURE; RENEWABLE FUELS; TRADITIONAL FOOD; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION;

CARBONATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFORMATION FUSION; LEACHING; METHANOL; POTASSIUM; TRANSESTERIFICATION; VEGETABLE OILS;

BIODIESEL;

EID: 73849113693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15426580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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