Practically useful models for kinetics of biodiesel production

• Main Authors: Chhabra, Pulkit, Mosbach, Sebastian, Karimi, Iftekhar A., Kraft, Markus
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Transesterification; Saponification
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143174
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We develop four kinetic models of varying complexity for biodiesel production. The models incorporate both transesterification and saponification, thereby making them practically applicable. We then propose an iterative parameter estimation algorithm to identify a prefixed number of significant rate...