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Triglycerides + Methanol Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) + Glycerol R-C-0-CH3 O II CH2-0-C-R O NaOH CH-0-C-R2 + 3 CH2-OH CH2-OH O=0O=O O R2-C-0-CH3 +
Triglycerides + Methanol Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) + Glycerol R-C-0-CH3 O II CH2-0-C-R O NaOH CH-0-C-R2 + 3 CH2-OH CH2-OH O=0O=O O R2-C-0-CH3 + CH OH O= II R3-C-0-CH; &- CH2 -0-0-R2 CH2-OH Methanol Triglycerol (Oil) Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) Glycerol In the production of biodiesel, a water wash step is used to separate the biodiesel from the reaction mixture. For your process, 1,000 lbm/hr of biodiesel is washed with 8 volumes of water, and the resulting mixture is sent to a gravity decanter for separation. Perform the mass balance on this process, where the streams entering and leaving the decanter are presented in lbm/hr and gal/hr
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