Author/Authors :
Rahimi، M نويسنده CFD Research center, Chemical Engineering Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran , , Basiri، M نويسنده CFD Research center, Chemical Engineering Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran , , Mohammadi، F نويسنده CFD Research center, Chemical Engineering Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran ,
Abstract :
In the present study, transesterification of soybean oil to Fatty Acid Methyl Ester
(FAME) was carried out in the microreactor. The system performance was
investigated in the presence of hexane as a cosolvent. Furthermore, the effect of
number of micromixer’s inlets on the mixing was one of the objectives in this work.
For the goals mentioned above, three different experiments were done with and
without cosolvent in two and three inlet micromixers under optimum conditions. Both
flow pattern observations and Gas Chromatgoraphy (GC) characterization of FAME
samples demonstrated that cosolvent technique and micromixer application could
significantly influence the FAME yield in biodiesel production.
