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Density and viscosity of vegetable oils

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A generalized method was developed to estimate the liquid density of vegetable oils and fatty acids. The correlation for vegetable oils was based on fatty acid critical properties and composition of the oil. The correlations predicted the density of vegetable oils and fatty acids with an average absolute deviation of 0.21 and 0.77%, respectively. The present method is slightly more accurate in predicting vegetable oil density and simpler than the method of Halvorsen et al. Also, a method is introduced that predicts viscosity from density data, thus relating two key properties of vegetable oils.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, Columbia, Missouri

    C. M. Rodenbush & D. S. Viswanath

  2. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, Columbia, Missouri

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Rodenbush, C.M., Hsieh, F.H. & Viswanath, D.S. Density and viscosity of vegetable oils. J Amer Oil Chem Soc 76, 1415–1419 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11746-999-0177-1

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