TY - JOUR AB - In biodiesel production process, not all fatty acid chains are turned into alkyl esters (biodiesel). This phenomenon reduces the biodiesel quality and yield significantly. Therefore, optimization of biodiesel production process is very much essential to attain maximum yield. In this work, biodiesel production from raw Pungamia oil was optimized by using Taguchi's method. The L9 orthogonal array was used to optimize the maximum yield of biodiesel production. The parameters like stirrer speed, concentration of NaOH catalyst, and reaction time for producing maximum yield of methyl esters from raw Pungamia oil is reported. In this analysis, signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ratio) and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) are employed to identify and quantify the maximum yield. The analysis revealed that 550 rpm stirrer speed, 15 g of NaOH catalyst, and 80 min reaction time are the optimum parameters for methyl esters of biodiesel production from raw Pungamia oil. AD - KPR Inst Engn & Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Coimbatore 641407, Tamil Nadu, India AN - WOS:000385378500005 AU - Saravanakumar, A. AU - Avinash, A. AU - Saravanakumar, R. DO - 10.1080/15567036.2015.1098746 IS - 17 J2 - Energ Source Part A KW - anova LA - English N1 - Dy8kj PY - 2016 SN - 1556-7036 SP - 2524-2529 ST - Optimization of biodiesel production from Pungamia oil by Taguchi'stechnique T2 - Energy Sources Part a-Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects TI - Optimization of biodiesel production from Pungamia oil by Taguchi'stechnique UR - ://WOS:000385378500005 VL - 38 ID - 13139 ER -