Modeling the effect of mixing in biodiesel production

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6508-6514

  Brásio, Ana S R ^a   Romanenko, Andrey ^b   Santos, Lino O ^a   Fernandes, Natércia C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Ciengis   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agitation; Biodiesel; Mixing intensity; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; DEVELOPED MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; INDEPENDENT SET; MIXING CONDITIONS; MIXING INTENSITY; MODELING; MODELING APPROACH; MODELING STRATEGY; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION; TRANSESTERIFICATION PROCESS;

BIODIESEL; TRANSESTERIFICATION; MODELS;

MIXING;

BIODIESEL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOFUEL; ESTER; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

BIOFUELS; ESTERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955385077     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.03.090     Document Type: Article

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