Research Article
Dynamic Modeling of Reversible Methanolysis of Jatropha curcas Oil to Biodiesel
Table 4
Activation energies for reversible reaction of methanolysis.
| Scenario of reaction | Rate constants | Activation energies (KJ mol−1) | |
| JTG + MeOH JDG + JME | | 6.5 | 0.91 | MeOH + JTG JME + JDG | | 39.5 | 0.92 | JDG + MeOH JMG + JME | | 6.1 | 0.92 | MeOH + JDG JME + JMG | | 24 | 0.97 | JMG + MeOH GL + JME | | 2.4 | 0.92 | MeOH + JMG JME + GL | | 44.4 | 0.97 |
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