Esterification of Oleic Acid for Biodiesel Production Using a Semibatch Atomization Apparatus

Figure 9

Response surfaces of the conversion of oleic acid obtained from model simulations under different oleic acid flow rates and temperatures. The simulations were performed with fixed pressures of 50 (a), 100 (b), and 150 kPa (c). The simulations were performed using the model parameters obtained from the third estimation approach (see Table 4).

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