P-Tu-B-218 Biodiesel Production Using Ultrasounds & Homogeneous Catalysts

Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Ballroom B (Lawrence Convention Center)
Serge Kaliaguine and Kiran Shinde, Université Laval, Canada.
In this work we studied the effect of ultrasound wave amplitude, power density and temperature. Ultrasound cavitation is fast and interphase mass transfer is ccelerated. High conversion of Canola oil to fatty acid methyl esters were reached in residence times as low as 20 seconds.

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