Research Article
Kinetics of Transesterification of Croton megalocarpus Oil Using Alkaline Earth Catalysts with Conventional and Microwave Heating
Table 1
Integrated form of rate equation (equation (7)).
| Case | Overall order | m | n | Rate equation | Equation number |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [A]oxA = k t | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ln(1/(1−xA)) = k t | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −(1/3)ln((αB−3xA)/αB) = k t | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | (1/(αB−3))ln((αB−3xA)/(1−xA)αB) = k [A]ot | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | x A1/(1−xA) = k [A]ot | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | xA/((αB−3xA)αB) = k [A]ot | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | (1/(αB−3))[((xA/(1 − xA))−(3/(αB−3))ln((αB−3xA)/(1−xA)αB)] = k [A]o2t | 14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | (1/(3−αB))[(3xA/((αB−3xA)αB)−(1/(3−αB))ln((1−xA)αB/(αB−3xA)] = k [A]o2t | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | (2−xA)xA/(1−xA)2 = 2 k [A]o2t | 16 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1/(αB−3xA)2−1/αB2 = 6 k [A]o2t | 17 |
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