Direct-inverse analysis of the biodiesel reaction in microreactors

Abstract eng:
A diffusive-convective-reactive coupled nonlinear mathematical model that governs the mass transfer process during the transesterification reaction in parallel plates microreactors in isothermal conditions is presented and a hybrid solution via Generalized Integral Transform Technique (GITT) is developed. The heuristic method Particle of Swarm Optimization (PSO) is applied in the inverse analysis to estimate the reaction kinetics constants. The results present a good agreement with experimental data from the literature and indicate that the GITT combined with PSO presents themselves as a efficient and robust combination for direct-inverse analysis in mass transfer problems.

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