Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages 270-279Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.03.011
Keywords
Transesterification; Esterification; Waste cooking oil; Microwave; Biodiesel
Funding
- European Union
- French Government
- Region Midi-Pyrenees
- FNADT, Grand Toulouse, Prefecture Midi-Pyrenees
- FEDER
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Microwave effects have been quantified, comparing activation energies and pre-exponential factors to those obtained in a conventionally-heated reactor for biodiesel production from waste cooking oils via transesterification and esterification reactions. Several publications report an enhancement of biodiesel production using microwaves, however recent reviews highlight poor temperature measurements in microwave reactors give misleading reaction performances. Operating conditions have therefore been carefully chosen to investigate non-thermal microwave effects alone. Temperature is monitored by an optical fiber sensor, which is more accurate than infrared sensors. For the transesterification reaction, the activation energy is 37.1 kJ/mol (20.1-54.2 kJ/mol) in the microwave-heated reactor compared with 31.6 kJ/mol (14.6-48.7 kJ/mol) in the conventionally-heated reactor. For the esterification reaction, the activation energy is 45.4 kJ/mol (31.8-58.9 kJ/mol) for the microwave-heated reactor compared with 56.1 kJ/mol (55.7-56.4 kJ/mol) for conventionally-heated reactor. The results confirm the absence of non-thermal microwave effects for homogenous-catalyzed reactions. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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