Shabnam Shahhoseyni

Amirkabir University of Technology

[ 1 ] - Effect of external mass transfer on activation energy of butyl oleate ester synthesis using a whole cell biocatalyst

In the present research, synthesis of butyl oleate ester from oleic acid and butanol using loofa-immobilized Rhizopus oryzae as a whole cell biocatalyst (LIC) was studied in which hexane was used as the hydrophobic solvent. Decrease of mass transfer limitations as result of the interface formation between the two immiscible substrates, positively affected on the reaction progress (87% as the es...