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A comparative study on the effect of unsaturation degree of camelina and canola oils on the optimization of bio-diesel production
Yang, Jie; Astatkie, Tess; He, Quan Sophia - In: Energy reports 2 (2016), pp. 211-217
optimization of reaction variables for refined canola oil, unrefined canola oil, and unrefined camelina oil using a four … biodiesel yields for each of refined canola, unrefined canola and unrefined camelina were determined. Results showed that the … catalyst loading in the transesterification process. The highest biodiesel yields from the optimum setting for refined canola …
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Development of emission parameters and net energy ratio for renewable diesel from Canola and Camelina
Miller, Patrick; Kumar, Amit - In: Energy 58 (2013) C, pp. 426-437
-derived renewable diesel (HDRD) from canola and camelina in Western Canada. Using 1 MJ of energy in the HDRD produced as the functional … superior to HDRD from canola (48 gCO2e/MJ, 1.7 MJ/MJ) due to lower agricultural inputs and higher yield for camelina ….e. the HDRD production stage) are the most energy and emission intensive. For canola based HDRD, the GHGs and NERs lie in the …
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Evaluation and optimization of two stage sequential in situ transesterification process for fatty acid methyl ester quantification from microalgae
Kumar, Vikram; Muthuraj, Muthusivaramapandian; … - In: Renewable Energy 68 (2014) C, pp. 560-569
This study demonstrates a direct transesterification (DT) method for reliable quantification of microalgal lipid …. Primary screening of various transesterification methods and the types of biomass (wet, oven dried and lyophilized) were … cell weight). Further optimization of transesterification parameters for selected method using response surface methodology …
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Optimization of conversion of waste rapeseed oil with high FFA to biodiesel using response surface methodology
Yuan, Xingzhong; Liu, Jia; Zeng, Guangming; Shi, Jingang; … - In: Renewable Energy 33 (2008) 7, pp. 1678-1684
-catalyzed transesterification process, which was designed according to the 24 full-factorial central composite design. The response surface …
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The effects of using biodiesel on CI (compression ignition) engine and optimization of its production by using response surface methodology
Abuhabaya, Abdullah; Fieldhouse, John; Brown, David - In: Energy 59 (2013) C, pp. 56-62
and its emissions. The biodiesel fuels were produced from Sunflower oil using the transesterification process with low …
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Zn,Al-catalysts for heterogeneous biodiesel production: Basicity and process optimization
Veiga, Paula Moraes; Luna, Aderval Severino; de … - In: Energy 75 (2014) C, pp. 453-462
Methyl esters produced by transesterification of vegetable oils are the main components of biodiesel, an alternative … were studied as catalysts for the transesterification of soybean oil with methanol. TPD-CO2 (temperature programmed …
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Biodiesel production from raw castor oil
Dias, J.M.; Araújo, J.M.; Costa, J.F.; Alvim-Ferraz, M.C.M. - In: Energy 53 (2013) C, pp. 58-66
homogenous alkaline transesterification and experimental planning was conducted to evaluate the influence of temperature and …
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Biodiesel production over copper vanadium phosphate
Chen, Lei; Yin, Ping; Liu, Xiguang; Yang, Lixia; Yu, Zhongxi - In: Energy 36 (2011) 1, pp. 175-180
-catalyzed transesterification process. Response surface methodology was employed to statistically evaluate and optimize the conditions for the … phosphate CuVOP resulted very active in the transesterification reaction for biodiesel production. …
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Biodiesel production optimization using γAl2O3 based catalysts
Sánchez, Marcos; Navas, Marisa; Ruggera, José F.; … - In: Energy 73 (2014) C, pp. 661-669
The transesterification reaction of soybean oil with methanol is studied with different γAl2O3 heterogeneous catalysts … the response is the biodiesel yield. Soybean heterogeneous transesterification is strongly affected by the methanol …
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Performance evaluation of artificial neural network coupled with generic algorithm and response surface methodology in modeling and optimization of biodiesel production process par...
Betiku, Eriola; Okunsolawo, Samuel S.; Ajala, Sheriff O.; … - In: Renewable Energy 76 (2015) C, pp. 408-417
temperature of 45 °C. Optimum values predicted for the transesterification reaction by RSM were temperature of 90 °C, KOH of 0.6 w …
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