Designing eco-efficient biodiesel production processes from waste vegetable oils

Computer Aided Chemical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue C, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Morais, Sérgio ^a,b   Couto, Sandra ^a   Martins, António A ^a   Mata, Teresa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alkali catalyzed process; Biodiesel; Free fatty acids pre treatment; Waste reduction (WAR) algorithm; Waste vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955186118     PISSN: 15707946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-7946(10)28043-4     Document Type: Article

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