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Application of Taguchi Experimental Design for the Optimization of Effective Parameters on the Neemoil Methyl Ester (Biodiesel) Production
Vol 3 , Issue 3 , July - September 2015 | Pages: 66-75 | Research Paper
Received: July 07, 2015 | Revised: July 20, 2015 | Accepted: August 28, 2015 | Published Online: September 15, 2015
Author Details
( * ) denotes Corresponding author
1.
* R. S. Mishra, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, Delhi, India (anandwrites@gmail.com)
2.
Amit Pal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, Delhi, India
3.
Anand Prakash Mall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, Delhi, India
ANOVA analysis showed that the temperature had the highest effect on the biodiesel yield followed by catalyst amount, methanol to oil molar ratio and reaction time. The result of this work using Taguchi Method showed that the maximum yields were obtained at lowest factor values. This will definitely have economic advantage on neem oil biodiesel production as low energy cost, low catalyst amount, low methanol/oil molar ratio, and low temperature are able to produce high biodiesel yield.
Keywords
Optimization; Taguchi Method; Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Method; Neem Oil Methyl Ester (Biodiesel).
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