Review of biodiesel composition, properties, and specifications

SK Hoekman, A Broch, C Robbins, E Ceniceros… - … and sustainable energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a renewable transportation fuel consisting of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME),
generally produced by transesterification of vegetable oils and animal fats. In this review, the …

Chemical compositions, properties, and standards for different generation biodiesels: A review

D Singh, D Sharma, SL Soni, S Sharma, D Kumari - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuously growing world's energy demand and global climate change due to green
house gas emissions have created need to find out renewable and sustainable energy …

Fundamental understanding of in-situ transesterification of microalgae biomass to biodiesel: A critical review

NT Thanh, M Mostapha, MK Lam, S Ishak… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
One-step in-situ transesterification has been recognized as an alternative approach to
produce biodiesel from microalgae biomass. Based on technoeconomic perspective, in-situ …

A review on the chemistry, production, and technological potential of bio-based lubricants

NA Zainal, NWM Zulkifli, M Gulzar… - … and sustainable energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The possible scarcity of oil and gas resources in the future (whether in quantity or areas of
availability) is a major concern throughout the world. For this reason, governments all over …

A comprehensive review on properties of edible and non-edible vegetable oil-based biodiesel: composition, specifications and prediction models

B Sajjadi, AAA Raman, H Arandiyan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the concern over depletion of the world׳ s petroleum reserves and
environmental pollution has increased the demand to develop a renewable and …

Relationships derived from physical properties of vegetable oil and biodiesel fuels

A Demirbas - Fuel, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to estimate mathematical relationships between higher heating
value (HHV) and viscosity, density or flash point measurements of various biodiesel fuels …

A statistical investigation of biodiesel physical and chemical properties, and their correlation with the degree of unsaturation

EG Giakoumis - Renewable energy, 2013 - Elsevier
In the present work, a detailed statistical investigation is conducted in order to a) assess the
average values of all properties (incl. fatty acid composition) of the most investigated …

Estimation of biodiesel cetane number, density, kinematic viscosity and heating values from its fatty acid weight composition

EG Giakoumis, CK Sarakatsanis - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
A detailed statistical investigation was conducted in order to correlate some important
biodiesel properties with the respective methyl ester weight composition in fatty acids. The …

Investigation of correlation between chemical composition and properties of biodiesel using principal component analysis (PCA) and artificial neural network (ANN)

MI Jahirul, MG Rasul, RJ Brown, W Senadeera… - Renewable energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiesel will provide a significant renewable energy source for transportation in the near
future. In the present study, principal component analysis (PCA) has been used to …

A comprehensive evaluation of the melting points of fatty acids and esters determined by differential scanning calorimetry

G Knothe, RO Dunn - Journal of the American Oil Chemists' …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The melting point is one of the most important physical properties of a chemical compound
and it plays a significant role in determining possible applications. For fatty acid esters the …