Optimization of Biodiesel production in Spinning disc Reactor using Response Surface Methodology
- Department of chemical Engineering, MGM’S Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad (M.S.), India.
- Department of chemical Engineering, Anuradha Engineering College Chikhli Dist Buldana, Maharashtra, India.
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An experiment was performed to study Transesterification in spinning disc reactor using response surface methodology. Spinning disc reactor have been fabricated and used for continuous alkali-catalyzed transesterification biodiesel production. The reactor was designed with a 110 mm diameter circular disc made of stainless steel as a static disc and another disc of same dimension made up of high density polyethylene to serve as rotating disc, enclosed on cylindrical vessel made of plexi-glass. The small gap sizes about 1 millimeter between static disc and rotating disc were maintained. The parameters for biodiesel preparation are studied with a response surface methodology (RSM) in this, central composite design (CCD) was used. This method is suitable for fitting the quadratic surface and it helps to optimize the effective parameters with a minimum number of experiments, and also to analyze the interaction between the parameters. The variables studied 1) A: reaction temperature 2) B: Flow Rate of oil and 3) C: catalyst concentration. Mole ratio of oil to methanol was fixed 1:6 by carrying various experiments.
[Vishnu Ashroba Gite, and Y.C. Bhattacharyulu (2015); Optimization of Biodiesel production in Spinning disc Reactor using Response Surface Methodology Int. J. of Adv. Res. 3 (Jun). 965-972] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com
