Dimitrios Tsaoulidis

Biodiesel production offers a promising route towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. However, the move away from crop-based feedstocks towards a variable waste base feed oil presents several challenges. This study addresses these challenges by using waste cooking oil (WCO) as a renewable feedstock for transesterification in a microreactor. Kinetic analysis was performed using both pseudo-homogeneous and biphasic second-order models to evaluate their suitability for describing the reaction.

This repository contains the raw and processed data used to evaluate the effects of flow rate ratio (FRR), channel size, and flow dynamics on microparticle formation and uniformity. The dataset includes droplet and particle size measurements acquired via high-speed imaging and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for both 30 μm and 100 μm flow-focusing microdevices. These data support the analysis of droplet formation dynamics, particle morphology, and the validation of the predictive particle size model.