화학공학소재연구정보센터
Energy Sources Part A-recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects, Vol.37, No.7, 705-713, 2015
A Kinetics Study of the Non-catalytic Supercritical Transesterification Reaction for Biodiesel Production
In the present study, a kinetics study of non-catalytic supercritical transesterification reaction for biodiesel production was conducted. The kinetics model was developed by employing a three-step reversible reaction in supercritical transesterification reaction. Important kinetics parameters, such as pre-exponential factors and activation energy, were obtained and compared with other reported studies. In the results, the developed model was found to be adequate and significant. Furthermore, it could predict the yield of FAME and other intermediate compounds with marginal error.