Biofuels (alcohols and biodiesel) applications as fuels for internal combustion engines
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...pinnata oil has been described in the literature [29,58,65,88,89,91,94,95]....
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...Table 15 Known problems, probable cause and potential solutions for using straight vegetable oil in diesel engines [58,81,89,91,179]....
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...Table 15 highlights the problems, probale causes and the potential solutions [8,43,53,58,80,81,88,89,99]....
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...Table 14 The chemical structures of common fatty acids [38,46,51,75,89,129]....
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...As a substitute for diesel, palm oil is less suitable than other vegetable oils owing to its high viscosity, lower energy density and high flash point [ 66 ]....
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...The effects of FFA and water on transesterification of beef tallow with methanol were investigated by Ma and Hanna [66]....
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...Water content was a more critical variable in the transesterification process than FFA [66]....
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...reasons for the problems and the potential solutions are shown in Table 6 [65,66]....
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...Some short-term experiments used up to a 50/50 ratio [66]....
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...The effect of moisture and FFA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...[69] studied the effect of molar ratio (from 1:1 to 6:1) on ester conversion with vegetable oils....
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...[69] transesterified peanut, cottonseed, sunflower and soybean oils under the condition of methanol to oil ratio of 6:1, 0....
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...[69] studied the transesterification of refined soybean oil with methanol (6:1), 1% NaOH catalyst, at three different temperatures 60, 45 and 32 1C....
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...Sodium hydroxide or sodium methoxide reacted with moisture and carbon dioxide in the air, which diminished their effectiveness [69]....
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...Further increase in catalyst concentration does not increase the conversion and it adds to extra costs because it is necessary to remove the catalyst from the reaction products at the end [64,69,70]....
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...Table 5 Physical and thermal properties of vegetable oils [64]...
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...2 diesel, in spite of the lower cetane number and energy content [64]....
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...Table 4 Chemical composition of vegetable oils [64]...
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...Table 3 Chemical structure of common fatty acids [64]...
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...Table 7 Properties of Biodiesel prepared from vegetable oils [64]...
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...The problem with processing these low-cost oils and fats is that they often contain large amounts of FFA that cannot be converted to biodiesel using an alkaline catalyst [93]....
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