TY - JOUR ID - 11251 TI - Investigation of Liquid–Liquid Two-Phase Flow Pattern in Microreactors for Biodiesel Production JO - Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering(IJChE) JA - IJCHE LA - en SN - 1735-5397 AU - Basiri, M. AU - Rahimi, M. AU - Mohammadi, F. AD - CFD Research center, Chemical Engineering Department, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 32 EP - 40 KW - Biodiesel KW - Cosolvent KW - Flow Pattern KW - Micromixer KW - Transesterification DO - N2 - "> In the present study, transesterification of soybean oil to Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) was carried out in the microreactor. The system performance was investigated in the presence of hexane as a cosolvent. Furthermore, the effect of number of micromixer’s inlets on the mixing was one of the objectives in this work. For the goals mentioned above, three different experiments were done with and without cosolvent in two and three inlet micromixers under optimum conditions. Both flow pattern observations and Gas Chromatgoraphy (GC) characterization of FAME samples demonstrated that cosolvent technique and micromixer application could significantly influence the FAME yield in biodiesel production. UR - https://www.ijche.com/article_11251.html L1 - https://www.ijche.com/article_11251_70a3c8b863f71620f9d689c51ecc74eb.pdf ER -