Vegetable oil derived fuels for diesel engines are becoming important as alternative to petroleum diesel fuels due to their environmental friendliness and availability. Ignition quality in compression ignition (CI) engines is influenced by thermal characteristics and fuel properties. In this study, the effects of vegetable oil transesterification and vegetable oil-1-butanol-diesel blend on fuel...

Nowadays, food contamination by mineral oil (MO) is a very important issue and its presence in edible oils is widely documented. Mineral oils are hydrocarbons mixture of petrochemical origin containing mainly two families of compounds, namely mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH). The most used approach for mineral oil analysis is liquid chromato...

• The technology platform of Solazyme: Solazyme ́s biotechnology platform transforms a wide variety of sugars into renewable oils with high added value, using microalgae, microorganisms that are naturally capable of storing energy in the form of oil. Solazyme’s technology enables the conversion of this feedstock into oils for a variety of applications including chemical, cosmetic, food and fuel....

Due to the demand for higher efficiency, gas engine designs are changing in that oils exposed thermal stress and face challenges regarding prevention of deposits. In this work, “oil chute” laboratory test was used study high-temperature deposit-formation tendency various paraffinic naphthenic base oil blends. The chute is a setup circulates through two different temperature zones, hot zone bein...

Cinnamon is the bark the cinnamomi cassia that exhibits many medical properties such as anti-cancer effect and anti-diabetic effect. Moreover, because of its antioxidant activity; it can be used in food industries. Many studies have already reported biological and chemical properties of the cinnamon extracted essential oil such as their antimicrobial, antifungal, antimosquito, free radical scav...

This research reports the antifriction and antiwear properties of Mn3O4-Graphene nanocomposites (Mn3O4-G) as additives a paraffinic base oil commonly used in formulation electric vehicles transmission oils, G-III oil. Four nanodispersions have been designed, + 0.025 wt% Mn3O4-G, 0.050 0.075 Mn3O4-G 0.100 to know optimal concentration nanoadditive. Tribological experiments were carried out with ...

This paper presents an electro-thermal hydrodynamic model that explains the development of different streamer modes in transformer oil. The focus is on the difference between the slow 2 and fast 3 mode streamers discussed in the literature. Through the use of numerical methods the model demonstrates that streamer modes arise in transformer oil due to the electric field dependent molecular ioniz...