Zanette, Andréia F.; Barella, Rodrigo A.; Pergher, … - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 2, pp. 726-731
This work investigates the production of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) from Jatropha curcas oil using a variety of heterogeneous catalysts: resins, zeolites, clays, hydrotalcites, aluminas and niobium oxide. For this purpose, a catalyst screening was first conducted in a batch reactor at the...