Transesterification of Mixture of Castor Oil and Sunflower Oil in Millichannel Reactor: FAME Yield and Flow Behaviour

Jamil, Muhammad Fitri; Uemura, Yoshimitsu; Kusakabe, Katsuki; Ayodele, Olumide Bolarinwa; Osman, Noridah; Majid, Nik Muhamad Nik Ab.; Yusup, Suzana

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.487

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“…The yield at slug flow displays a higher FAME value than for annular flow owing to the internal circulation in slug flow, which enhances the mass transfer through the phase boundary of methanol and oil. A similar trend has also been reported by Jamil, et al [5], i.e. the reaction with a slug flow regime has a higher FAME yield than with an annular/parallel flow regime.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Many studies have been done to investigate the transesterification process in microreactors with several reaction parameters, such as temperature, catalyst concentration and residence time. Similar results have been observed regardless of the feedstock used [3][4][5][6][7][8]. For example, high temperature gives a fast reaction as per the Arrhenius equation; high temperature yields a higher reaction rate constant.…”

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confidence: 77%

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Quantitative Analysis of Interfacial Area on Liquid-liquid Multiphase Flow of Transesterification Process in Cross-junction Microchannel Reactor

KuShaari

Laziz

Hamid

2019

J. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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The key advantage of microfluidic technology in chemical processing is the high interfacial area, which is especially important in multiphase reactions. Multiphase reactions such as transesterification of vegetable oil and methanol to produce biodiesel are largely dependent on the interfacial area for better mass transfer. However, little attention has been given to the hydrodynamic factor, which affects the interfacial area in the microchannel. In this study, the interfacial area from the droplet flow regime was studied by varying three parameters: methanol to oil ratio (M/O), total flow rate (Q Total ), and catalyst concentration. The droplet flow was created by a cross-junction channel and photos were made to measure the size of the droplets with the help of a microscope. The maximum M/O ratio (23) and the lowest flow rate (10 μL/min) exhibited the highest interfacial area, where increasing the M/O by 67% could increase the interfacial area by 23%. By varying the KOH catalyst concentration, the change in the interfacial area was very small, thus having the lowest impact on the interfacial area of the droplet. Further analysis must be performed to investigate the impact of interfacial area and mass transfer coefficient on reaction performance in producing the highest yield of biodiesel in a microchannel reactor.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 77%

Quantitative Analysis of Interfacial Area on Liquid-liquid Multiphase Flow of Transesterification Process in Cross-junction Microchannel Reactor

KuShaari

Laziz

Hamid

2019

J. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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“…Many studies have been carried out to investigate the transesterification process using microreactors (Guan et al, 2009;Jamil et al, 2016;Rahimi et al, 2014;Wen et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, most of the CFD analyses in the microchannels resulted in a stratified flow regime. Jamil et al observed that the slug/droplet flow results in the higher FAME yield as compared to stratified/parallel flow in the microchannel (Jamil et al, 2016). To the best of authors' knowledge, no CFD modelling of the slug/droplet flow…”

Section: Accepted Manuscript Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantitative analysis of hydrodynamic effect on transesterification process in T-junction microchannel reactor system

Laziz

KuShaari

Chin

et al. 2019

Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification

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“…Microtube reactor had been tested for the transesterification of palm oil and the influence of catalyst concentration and residence time were investigated for two different tube internal diameters [12]. The flow characteristics had been investigated in a milli-channel reactor used of the transesterification of a mixture of castor and sunflower oil [13]. In an experimental and simulation study, the biodiesel synthesis from sunflower oil in a microreactor was investigated for the operating conditions and compared the performance of microdevice with the batch reactor [14].…”

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Micro-Reactor Device For Dbsa-catalyzed Biodiesel Synthesis from Microalgae Chlorella Sp.

Jazie¹,

Nuhma²,

Abbas³

et al. 2020

E3S Web Conf.

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The micro-reactor device was fabricated from Teflon and tested as a tool for biodiesel synthesis process from micro algae using Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid catalyst. The variables influenceing on the biodiesel yield were optimized. The maximum yield of biodiesel of 99% was obtained at the reaction conditions of (temperature: 373.15 K, residence time: 20 min, methanol/oil ratio: 20, co-solvent amount: 30 wt% and catalyst amount: 11wt%). The influence of water content also investigated and recommended to be less than 0.5 wt %. The acid value also reduced to a value of less than 0.5 % at the optimum reaction condition. DBSA was found highly active catalyst for the esterification and transesterification reaction in the micro – reactor device. Biodiesel was produced in microreactor device at a small residence time (20 min) compared to the very long time consumed by the conventional batch process. Isopropanol was used as a co-solvent in the process and showed highly active in the biodiesel production.

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Transesterification of Mixture of Castor Oil and Sunflower Oil in Millichannel Reactor: FAME Yield and Flow Behaviour

Cited by 21 publications

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Quantitative Analysis of Interfacial Area on Liquid-liquid Multiphase Flow of Transesterification Process in Cross-junction Microchannel Reactor

Quantitative Analysis of Interfacial Area on Liquid-liquid Multiphase Flow of Transesterification Process in Cross-junction Microchannel Reactor

Quantitative analysis of hydrodynamic effect on transesterification process in T-junction microchannel reactor system

Micro-Reactor Device For Dbsa-catalyzed Biodiesel Synthesis from Microalgae Chlorella Sp.

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