Alcohol fuels

Special issue from the 20th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF 2013): alcohol fuels enabling sustainable future development

This Editorial introduces a special issue from the 20th International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels (ISAF 2013) on alcohol fuels enabling sustainable future development.

A Kinetic Modeling Study of Mixtures of Methyl-esters with Alcohol Fuels

Abstract Aim of this work is to discuss and verify the ability of a lumped kinetic model of methyl-esters to simulate the oxidation and pyrolysis of mixtures of these components with alcohol fuels. The comparisons between recent experimental data and model predictions further confirm the validity of the kinetic model and the promising perspective of the lumped approach. The results here present...

Effect of alcohol addition on the movement of petroleum hydrocarbon fuels in soil.

Groundwater contamination by fuel spills from aboveground and underground storage tanks has been of growing concern in recent years. This problem has been magnified by the addition of oxygenates, such as ethanol and methyl-tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) to fuels to reduce vehicular emissions to the atmosphere. These additives, although beneficial in reducing atmospheric pollution, may, however, in...

Determination of formaldehyde in Brazilian alcohol fuels by flow-injection solid phase spectrophotometry.

In this work, a solid phase spectrophotometric method in association with flow injection analysis for formaldehyde determination has been developed with direct measurement of light-absorption in C(18) material. The 3,5-diacetyl-1,4-dihydrolutidine produced from the reaction between formaldehyde and fluoral P was quantitatively retained on C(18) support and the spectrophotometric detection was p...

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