Design and performance assessment of an in-house fabricated microreactor for enzyme-catalysed biodiesel synthesis
Joint Authors
Yusuf, Hayah Abd Allah
Husayn, Dhakir S. M.
al-Sai, Ali Muhammad
al-Hindi, Ali Husayn
Ibrahim, Idris
al-Kanzi, al-Amin M.
Source
Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
Issue
Vol. 27, Issue 1 (30 Jun. 2020), pp.238-247, 10 p.
Publisher
University of Bahrain College of Science
Publication Date
2020-06-30
Country of Publication
Bahrain
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The production of biodiesel from transesterification of oils is the currently available alternative to consumable fuels.
The study focuses on the performance assessment of a microreactor platform for biodiesel production.
Since a microreactor provides better mass transfer and a higher surface-to-volume ratio, this significantly contributes to augmenting the reaction rate of biodiesel production at reduced cost.
In this study, firstly the T-shaped microfluidic reactor was fabricated on a PMMA (poly methyl methacrylate) sheet.
Then, the kinetics of enzymatic transesterification reaction for biodiesel synthesis in this reactor was investigated.
A combination of sunflower oil and methanol was used as feedstock in the presence of lipase from Thermomyces lanuginous as a catalyst and tert-butanol as a solvent.
The reaction was carried out under ambient conditions (1 atm and 30 °C) where 285 v% of tert-butanol was loaded to oil with 4 wt% lipase, and the molar ratio of oil to methanol was 1:2.5.
Gas Chromatography was used to measure the concentration of biodiesel.
The kinetic parameters such as maximum reaction rate (Vmax) and Michaelis –Menten constant (KM) were found to be 0.725 (mol/L.min) and 0.092 mol/L, respectively.
High Vmax and low KM values indicated the better performance of the reactor.
In addition, a Lineweaver-Burk plot with excellent coefficient of determination (R2) of 99.5% supported the high performance of the microreactor.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Yusuf, Hayah Abd Allah& al-Kanzi, al-Amin M.& Husayn, Dhakir S. M.& al-Sai, Ali Muhammad& al-Hindi, Ali Husayn& Ibrahim, Idris. 2020. Design and performance assessment of an in-house fabricated microreactor for enzyme-catalysed biodiesel synthesis. Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences،Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.238-247.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-957519
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Yusuf, Hayah Abd Allah…[et al.]. Design and performance assessment of an in-house fabricated microreactor for enzyme-catalysed biodiesel synthesis. Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Vol. 27, no. 1 (2020), pp.238-247.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-957519
American Medical Association (AMA)
Yusuf, Hayah Abd Allah& al-Kanzi, al-Amin M.& Husayn, Dhakir S. M.& al-Sai, Ali Muhammad& al-Hindi, Ali Husayn& Ibrahim, Idris. Design and performance assessment of an in-house fabricated microreactor for enzyme-catalysed biodiesel synthesis. Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. 2020. Vol. 27, no. 1, pp.238-247.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-957519
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 245-247
Record ID
BIM-957519