Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Rajendran R

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• Research Article
  A Method of Central Composite Design (CCD) For Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Chlorella vulgaris
  Author(s): Rajendran R, Kanimozhi B, Prabhavathi P, Dinesh Kumar S, Santhanam P, Abirami M, Karthik Sundaram S and Manikandan ARajendran R, Kanimozhi B, Prabhavathi P, Dinesh Kumar S, Santhanam P, Abirami M, Karthik Sundaram S and Manikandan A
  
  The direct transesterification of the oleaginous biomass using chloroform resulted in a high biodiesel yield and FAME content than the chloroform-based extraction transesterification method and the yield was almost 100%. Hexane (89%) and petroleum ether (80%) also produced biodiesel but the yield was low when compared with chloroform. Our study showed that the biodiesel yield and FAME content of the wet biomass in the direct transesterification was significantly lower than those obtained from freeze-dried biomass suggesting that drying the algae was necessary for direct transesterification. The optimization procedures were carried out with algae: ethanol ratio, catalyst amount, reaction temperature and reaction time. The central composite design (CCD) was used to optimize the various processes. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was also carried out and the .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7463.1000219

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