Development and testing of a Jatropha fruit shelling process for shell-free kernel recovery in biodiesel production

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 46-55

  Lim, Bo Yuan ^a   Shamsudin, Rosnah ^a   Yunus, Robiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIESEL; BLOWERS; CRACKS; FRUITS; OPTIMIZATION; RECOVERY; ROLLERS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); SEPARATION;

AIR SPEED; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; OIL EXTRACTION; OIL QUALITY; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; SEPARATION UNITS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84896035038     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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