Effects of electrode configuration on chemical kinetics of Biodiesel production with electric field

• Main Authors: Souksavath Phounsavath, Xayphone Houngbounyaung, Vansay Maxsarik, Tanongkiat Kiatsirirod
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering; Materials Science
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85076031742&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/67815
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. This paper presented chemical kinetics of biodiesel transesterification under electric field. A barrier discharge technique was carried out with 2 and 4 electrodes attached at outside and 1 electrode inside of a glass cylinder contained crude vegetable oil and methanol. The composition of the crude oil and methanol was 1:6 by mol. Crude Tung oil and crude palm oil were raw materials with an amount of 100 ml. The operating periods ware 50 s and 420 s for Palm oil and Tung oil, respectively. About 91 % and 88.5 % of biodiesel were found from the crude oils, respectively. With 3 and 5 electrodes, the chemical kinetics for the reaction rate (r) could be,