P-Tu-59 Biodiesel Production from Soybean Oil with Microwave Heating Using Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Ontario Exhibit Hall (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Christopher J. Gilbert, Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, George W. Huber, Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Wm. Curt Conner Jr., Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Biodiesel is readily produced using a homogeneous catalyst with conventional heating. However, a heterogeneous catalyst can exhibit similar activities with microwave heating and has the advantage that it is recoverable and reusable. Developing kinetic and mechanistic models describing the reaction with these different catalysts and heating methods are also desirable.

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