Shriyash Deshpande
University of South Florida, USA
Biography
Shriyash Deshpande is a recent graduate with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Florida. His master’s thesis entitled “Production of Biodiesel from Soybean Oil Using Supercritical Methanol” covered the depths of supercritical transesterification, reaction kinetics, gas chromatography for biodiesel analysis and design of experiments with statistical analysis. He is currently working on scaling up to a pilot plant for biodiesel production using supercritical fluid technology.
Abstract
Abstract : Development of supercritical transesterification for sustainable conversion of oils to biodiesel