Table 1.

Concentration of methyl ester (based on mole fraction) at temperatures of 60 (A), 55 (B), and 50°C (C), respectively.

Reaction time (s)		X ME		−ln (1 − X ME)
	A	B	C	A	B	C
0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000
30	0.32	0.24	0.14	0.385660	0.274437	0.150823
60	0.40	0.28	0.15	0.510826	0.328504	0.162519
90	0.42	0.34	0.24	0.590000	0.415515	0.274437
120	0.5819	0.43	0.30	0.872035	0.562119	0.356675
150	0.63	0.51	0.34	0.994252	0.713350	0.415515
180	0.70	0.57	0.38	1.203973	0.843970	0.478036
210	0.75	0.63	0.45	1.386294	0.994252	0.597837
240	0.81	0.65	0.50	1.660731	1.049822	0.693147

X _ME: concentration of methyl ester.

−ln (1 − X _ME): triglyceride concentration.