Mechanistic insight into sonochemical biodiesel synthesis using heterogeneous base catalyst

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169-181

  Choudhury, Hanif A ^a   Chakma, Sankar ^a   Moholkar, Vijayanand S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Cavitation bubble dynamics; Heterogeneous catalyst; Soybean oil; Transesterification; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BIODIESEL; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CATALYSTS; CAVITATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; SOYBEAN OIL; TRANSESTERIFICATION; ULTRASONICS;

BIODIESEL SYNTHESIS; CAVITATION BUBBLE; HETEROGENEOUS BASE CATALYST; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; OPTIMUM TEMPERATURE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; TRANSESTERIFICATION REACTION;

SYNTHETIC FUELS;

ALCOHOL; BIODIESEL; OIL;

ACIDITY; ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; ULTRASOUND; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIODIESEL; CAVITATION BUBBLE DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; SOYBEAN OIL; TRANSESTERIFICATION; ULTRASOUND;

BIOFUELS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, SYNTHETIC; ESTERIFICATION; KINETICS; OXIDES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84884349388     PISSN: 13504177     EISSN: 18732828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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