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Improving Cold Flow Properties of Biodiesels Using Binary Biodiesel Blends

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Advances in Clean Energy Technologies

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The environmental threats posed by rapidly deleting the fossil fuels are currently a major global concern and lead to the research of alternative energy resources. The biodiesel is considered as substitute of diesel but the biodiesel suffers with the disadvantage that the fuel quality is very much impacted by its cold flow properties. The present paper aims to improve the cold flow properties (CFP) of biodiesels by binary blending and blending with kerosene and ethanol as CFP improvers. Jatropha biodiesel (JB) and Pongamia biodiesel (PB) were blended with diesel, kerosene, ethanol and microalgal biodiesel (MB), and it is found that JB20 blend has 27% lower CP and PP compared to JB100. JBK40 blend lowers the CP and PP to 7 and 3 °C, respectively, while JBK20 blend maximally lowers the CP and PP up to −15 and −18.3 °C, respectively, but due to its non-renewable nature and emits lots of smoke due to kerosene it is not recommended for use in engine. JBE20 blend further reduces the CP and PP to 16 and 13 °C, which is higher than diesel. Therefore, ethanol is not recommended for blending purpose but may be used as CFP in lesser proportion. The results showed that JBM20 blend has significantly improved CP and PP (9.2 and 5.5 °C) and PBM20 blend also has lower CP and PP (12 and 7.5 °C) compared to JB100 and PB100. So, JB20, JBM20 and PBM20 blends can be recommended for use in engine under low-temperature conditions.

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Abbreviations

CP:

Cloud point

CFI:

Cold flow improver

CFP:

Cold flow properties

CFPP:

Cold filter plugging point

E:

Ethanol

K:

Kerosene

M:

Microalgal biodiesel

JB:

Jatropha biodiesel

JBXX:

XX per cent of JB blended with diesel

LTFT:

Low-temperature flow test

MB:

Microalgal biodiesel

PB:

Pongamia biodiesel

PP:

Pour point

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  1. Biofuel Research Laboratory, Alternate Hydro Energy Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India

    Krishna Kant Mishra & Mahendra Pal Sharma

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh Engineering Colleges, Landran, Mohali, India

    Mukesh Kumar, Amol Saini & Kunal Salwan

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, GBPIET Pauri Garhwal, Pauri Garhwal, India

    Ravikant Ravi

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

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Mishra, K.K., Kumar, M., Ravi, R., Saini, A., Salwan, K., Sharma, M.P. (2021). Improving Cold Flow Properties of Biodiesels Using Binary Biodiesel Blends. In: Baredar, P.V., Tangellapalli, S., Solanki, C.S. (eds) Advances in Clean Energy Technologies . Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0235-1_73

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