The effect of various process parameters on trans-esterification
reaction for biodiesel production is important to understand to
produce cost-effective biodiesel. A statistical Taguchi
approach has been used by several researchers to analyze the
parametric effects on the trans-esterification process3-6.
Taguchi method is a statistical analysis of a system and
utilizes various orthogonal arrays for the design of
experiments7-8. Taguchi orthogonal array, where only a
fraction of the total combination of parameters is considered,
minimizes the number of experiments while covering a wide
range of operating conditions and keeping all the
information/data intact.