Biodiesel is a renewable liquid fuel that can be produced by a transesterification reaction between a vegetable oil and an alcohol. This paper evaluates and optimizes the production of ethyl esters (biodiesel) from soybean oil and ethanol. The reaction was carried out by applying ultrasound under atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature. Response surface methodology was used to evaluate the...

in distribution systems, in order to diminish power losses and keep voltage profiles within acceptable limits, network reconfiguration and capacitor placement are commonly used. in this paper, the hybrid shuffled frog leaping algorithm (hsfla) is used to optimize balanced and unbalanced radial distribution systems by means of a network reconfiguration and capacitor placement. high accuracy and ...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Unbiased estimation for parameters of maximal distribution is a fundamental problem in the statistical theory sublinear expectations. In this paper, we proved that maximum estimator largest unbiased upper mean and minimum smallest lower mean.</p>

supported catalysts synthesized via the interaction of mg(oet)2 with ticl4 in the presence or absence of an internal stereoregulating donor (di-n-butyl phthalate), with different solvents (chlorobenzene, n-undecane, n-heptane) at different titanation temperatures have been studied by a set of physicochemical methods. data on the chemical composition, x-ray structure and pore structure of these ...

Effect of nitrogen post-doping on a commercial platinum–ruthenium/carbon anode catalyst Report Title This work investigates the effects of after-the-fact chemical modification of a state-of-the-art commercial carbonsupported PtRu catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). A commercial PtRu/C (JM HiSPEC-10000) catalyst is post-doped with nitrogen by ion-implantation, where “post-doped” den...