Evaluation of Predictive Models for the Viscosity of Biodiesel

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Viscosity is an important biodiesel parameter, subject to specifications and with an impact on the fuel quality. A model that could predict the value of viscosity of a biodiesel based on the knowledge of its composition would be useful in the optimization of biodiesel production processes and the planning of blending of raw materials and refined products. This work aims at evaluating the predictive capability of several models previously proposed in the literature for the description of the viscosities of biodiesels and their blend with other fuels. The models evaluated here are Ceriani's, Krisnangkura's, and Yuan's models, along with a revised version of Yuan's model proposed here. The results for several biodiesel systems show that revised Yuan's model proposed provides the best description of the experimental data with an average deviation of 4.65%, as compared to 5.34% for Yuan's model, 8.07% for Ceriani's model, and 7.25% for Krisnangkura's model. The same conclusions were obtained when applying these models to predict the viscosity of blends of biodiesel with petrodiesel.25352358Fundacao OrienteUniversity of AveiroFundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/28258/2006]Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/28258/2006

Measurement and prediction of speeds of sound of fatty acid ethyl esters and ethylic biodiesels

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Speed of sound of fatty esters provides important information about biodiesel injection characteristics and enables the estimation of many other important properties of biodiesels. Nevertheless, the experimental speeds of sound of fatty esters are very scant. This work provides new data on speed of sound for nine fatty acid ethyl esters and four ethylic biodiesels, measured at atmospheric pressure and temperatures ranging from 293.15 to 343.15 K. These new data is used to evaluate the ability of the Wada's group contribution method to predict the biodiesel speed of sound. It is here shown that this model provides excellent description of the experimental data, with overall average relative deviations (OARDs) of 0.25% for the ethyl esters and between 0.45% and 0.59% for the biodiesels. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.108840845Fundacaopara a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/51476/2011, Pest-C/CTM/LA0011/2011]FundacaoOrienteUniversity of AveiroFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PEst-OE/QUI/UI0536/2011, PEst-OE/QUI/UI0612/2011]Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundacaopara a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/51476/2011, Pest-C/CTM/LA0011/2011]FAPESP [2008/56258-8]CNPq [304495/2010-7, 483340/2012-0]Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PEst-OE/QUI/UI0536/2011, PEst-OE/QUI/UI0612/2011