High-yield production of biodiesel by non-catalytic supercritical methanol transesterification of crude castor oil (Ricinus communis)

Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 165-171

  Román Figueroa, Celián ^a   Olivares Carrillo, Pilar ^b   Paneque, Manuel ^c   Palacios Nereo, Francisco Javier ^b   Quesada Medina, Joaquín ^b  

^a Agroenergía Ingeniería Genética S A Inc   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Castor oil; Supercritical transesterification; Thermal decomposition

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; BIODIESEL; DECOMPOSITION; METHANOL; MOLAR RATIO; PYROLYSIS; SYNTHETIC FUELS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOLYSIS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; VEGETABLE OILS;

BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; CASTOR OIL; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; REACTION CONDITIONS; SUPERCRITICAL METHANOL; SUPERCRITICAL TRANSESTERIFICATION; SUPERCRITICAL-METHANOL TRANSESTERIFICATION;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOFUEL; BIOREACTOR; CATALYST; ESSENTIAL OIL; ESTER; FATTY ACID; METHANOL; SHRUB; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 84964900151     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.03.136     Document Type: Article

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