Table 1.
The concentrations of reactant and product, and reaction rate of product in the transesterification reaction of biodiesel production in the hybrid catalytic-plasma reactor.
| Run | Molar ratio |
CTGTriglyceride (gmol/L) |
CMMethanol (gmol/L) |
CMEFAAE (gmol/L) |
CGGlycerol (gmol/L) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Methanol | Triglyceride | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | 1 | 0.910 | 2.729 | 0.271 | 0.588 | 3.617 × 10−4 |
| 2 | 5 | 1 | 0.847 | 4.237 | 0.319 | 0.468 | 4.268 × 10−4 |
| 3 | 7 | 1 | 0.793 | 5.551 | 0.505 | 0.433 | 6.744 × 10−4 |
| 4 | 17 | 1 | 0.601 | 10.208 | 1.034 | 0.447 | 13.795 × 10−4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.944 | 1.888 | 0.517 | 0.719 | 6.899 × 10−4 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 0.982 | 0.981 | 0.657 | 0.503 | 8.771 × 10−4 |
| 7 | 1 | 2 | 1.002 | 0.500 | 1.171 | 0.650 | 15.624 × 10−4 |
| 8 | 1 | 3 | 1.008 | 0.337 | 0.473 | 0.761 | 6.406 × 10−4 |