Production of biodiesel at the kinetic limit in a centrifugal reactor/separator

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3160-3169

  McFarlane, Joanna ^a   Tsouris, Costas ^a   Birdwell Jr , Joseph F ^a   Schuh, Denise L ^a   Jennings, Hal L ^a   Palmer Boitrago, Amy M ^a   Terpstra, Sarah M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS; CENTRIFUGAL CONTACTOR; CHEMICAL KINETICS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-FLAME IONIZATION DETECTIONS; HIGH SHEAR; METHYL ESTERS; ONE-PASS; PREEXPONENTIAL FACTOR; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESIDENCE TIME; REVERSE REACTIONS; REVERSIBLE REACTION; SOYBEAN OIL; STEPWISE PROCESSING; THREE-STEP MECHANISM; TURBULENT MIXING; YIELDS OF PRODUCTS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLYCEROL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZATION OF GASES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHANOL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANCE; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

REACTION RATES;

EID: 77950396879     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901229x     Document Type: Article

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