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Original Articles

Study of KOH/Al2O3 as heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production via in situ transesterification from microalgae

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Pages 622-627 | Received 27 Feb 2014, Accepted 10 Aug 2014, Published online: 15 Sep 2014

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