TY - JOUR AB - Biodiesel is a clean renewable fuel which is an alternative source of diesel fuel in compression ignition engines without any modification. According to previous research, the importance of biodiesel production through heterogeneous transesterification of waste cooking palm oil (WCPO) over Sr/ZrO2 catalyst has led to developing a new mathematical algorithm called Modified Data Envelopment Analysis (MDEA). MDEA, a hybrid of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with Neural Network (NN), was proposed for experiment design of multi-response problems. It was validated with Response Surface Methodology (RSM), which is a statistical method. This method was developed to maximise Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) yield and five decision variables were considered. The optimum amount of methanol to oil molar ratio, catalyst loading, reaction temperature, reaction time on Ester yield, and free fatty acid (FFA) conversion were calculated via MDEA method. The obtained results showed that the derived optimal parameter-setting of the proposed method, MDEA, is more reliable and accurate than RSM. The errors of predicted Ester yields are 5% and 14% in MDEA and RSM. The calculated errors of conversions are 3% and 19% in MDEA and RSM. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AD - Amirkabir Univ Technol, Tehran Polytech, Sch Chem Engn, 424 Hafez Ave, Tehran 15914, Iran AN - WOS:000384385600003 AU - Saeidi, S. AU - Jouybanpour, P. AU - Mirvakilli, A. AU - Iranshahi, D. AU - Klemes, J. J. DA - Nov 10 DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.192 J2 - J Clean Prod KW - biodiesel production LA - English N1 - B Sp. Iss. SI PY - 2016 SN - 0959-6526 SP - 23-30 ST - A comparative study between Modified Data Envelopment Analysis and Response Surface Methodology for optimisation of heterogeneous biodiesel production from waste cooking palm oil T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production TI - A comparative study between Modified Data Envelopment Analysis and Response Surface Methodology for optimisation of heterogeneous biodiesel production from waste cooking palm oil UR - ://WOS:000384385600003 VL - 136 ID - 13098 ER -