Esterification of fatty acids by new ionic liquids as acid catalysts

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 431-435

  Aghabarari, Behzad ^a   Dorostkar, Nasim ^b   Ghiaci, Mehran ^b   Amini, Sajad Ghaed ^a   Rahimi, Ebrahim ^a   Martinez Huerta, M V ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acid catalyst; Biodiesel; Esterification; Fatty acid; Ionic liquid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894658208     PISSN: 18761070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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