Methanol recovery during transesterification of palm oil in a TiO2/Al2O3 membrane reactor: Experimental study and neural network modeling

• Main Authors: Baroutian, Saeid, Aroua, Mohamed Kheireddine, Abdul Raman, Abdul Aziz, Sulaiman, Nik Meriam Nik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/4455/1/Baroutian-2010-Methanol_recovery_du.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/4455/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2010.09.020

High quality palm oil biodiesel can be produced by combination of alkali transesterification and separation processes in a TiO2/Al2O3 membrane reactor. Due to the small molecular size, methanol molecules are able to pass through the membrane along with the products. Since methanol is one of the proc...