Nowadays, there are many intensification technologies for biodiesel production that have been devised to solve the problems of
reaction reversibility and the immiscibility of the two reactants[1].
Many types of reactor, such as a membrane reactor[2–4], reactive
distillation[5]and reactive absorption[6]have been developed to
improve transesterification rate by removing the products during
the reaction, thus shifting the reaction equilibrium and facilitating
increased biodiesel yield. Rotating packed bed reactors[7], bubble
column reactors[8], jet flow stirred reactors [9], etc. have all been
applied to create a sufficient contact surface area between two
immiscible phases and assist the mixing of the two reactants