In this study, corn oil as vegetable oil, chicken fat and fleshing oil as animal fats were used to produce methyl ester in a biodiesel pilot plant. The FFA level of the corn oil was below 1% while those of animal fats were too high to produce biodiesel via base catalyst. Therefore, it was needed to perform pretreatment reaction for the animal fats. For this aim, sulfuric acid was used as cataly...

We attempt to determine the impact of production decisions on the price of heating oil. A model for the production of distillate fuel oil is proposed. Its solution, obtained using stochastic dynamic programming, closely matches history. By perturbing the problem in a deliberate manner, we can determine the value of additional units of inventory by examining diierences in costs. Using these diie...

Biodiesel is emerging as a promising substitute of an alternative fuel and has gained significant attention due to the predicted depletion of conventional fuels availability in near future and environmental pollution concern. Utilization of biodiesel produced from Jatropha oil by transesterification process is one of the most promising options to replace conventional fossil diesel fuel. The phy...

A mobile, low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensor for onboard, inline detection of catalytic fines in fuel oil in the shipping industry is presented as an alternative to onshore laboratory measurements. Catalytic fines (called cat fines) are aluminosilicate zeolite catalysts utilized in the oil cracking process at refineries. When present in fuel oil, cat fines cause abrasive wear of ...

The high demand to replace the petroleum fuel makes renewable and sustainable sources such as Palm oil, Jatropha oil and Algae as main focus feedstock for biodiesel production in Malaysia. There are many studies conducted on Palm oil and Jatropha oil, however, the use of Algae as an alternative fuel is still in its infancy. Malaysia already implemented B5 based Palm oil as a feedstock and this ...

Fuel properties of loofah oil and its ethyl ester blended with diesel were experimentally determined. Biodiesel blends (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 and 100%) of loofah oil and its ethyl ester by volume with diesel was used. The fuel properties of the biodiesel blends were determined according to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards. Pure Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) wa...

An experimental investigation has been carried out for the first law analysis of a DI (direct-ignition) diesel engine running on straight soybean oil (SVO) preheated at 50, 75, 100C with different loads at varying speeds of 1750, 2000, 2250 rpm. The results show that preheated straight soybean oil may be a practical replacement of the conventional diesel fuel with a small power and efficiency d...

Human activities such as burning fossil fuels for energy production have contributed to the rising global atmospheric CO2 concentration. The search alternative renewable and sustainable sources replace is crucial meet demand. Bio-feedstocks are abundant, carbon-rich, bioresources that can be transformed into value-added chemicals, biofuels, biomaterials. conversion of solid biomass liquid fuel ...

The pyrolysis of scrap tires is a very attractive strategy to valorize chemically these end-of-life wastes. products this step and any additional one, such as hydrotreating, are relatively complex in nature entangling the understanding limiting viability. In work, we have investigated detail composition tire oil blended with light cycle (from refinery) its hydrotreated using bifunctional NiW/HY...