Effects of electrode configuration on chemical kinetics of Biodiesel production with electric field

Abstract

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. This paper presented chemical kinetics of biodiesel transesterification under electric field. A barrier discharge technique was carried out with 2 and 4 electrodes attached at outside and 1 electrode inside of a glass cylinder contained crude vegetable oil and methanol. The composition of the crude oil and methanol was 1:6 by mol. Crude Tung oil and crude palm oil were raw materials with an amount of 100 ml. The operating periods ware 50 s and 420 s for Palm oil and Tung oil, respectively. About 91 % and 88.5 % of biodiesel were found from the crude oils, respectively. With 3 and 5 electrodes, the chemical kinetics for the reaction rate (r) could be,