Thermal diesel-like analysis |
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Authors: | Alexandre G S Prado R?mulo D A Andrade Jez W B Braga Paulo A Z Suarez |
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Institution: | 1. QuiCSI Team, LMC and LQAA, Institute of Chemistry, University of Bras??lia, C.P. 4478, Brasilia, DC, 70904-970, Brazil 2. Federal Institute of Technologic Education of Rio Verde, C.P. 66, Rio Verde, GO, 75910-970, Brazil
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Abstract: | Biofuel has been obtained by cracking of soybean (Glycine sp.) oil, which is characterized by acidity index, density, cetane index, copper corrosion, carbon residue, fulgor point, and heat of combustion. In order to evaluate the quality of biofuel as well as detect its adulteration with vegetable oil, partial least squares regression calibration models based on thermogravimetric (TG) analysis were used as a precise and an accurate method. Thirty mixtures of biofuel/diesel/vegetable oil standards were prepared. Twenty of them were used for calibration, and ten for validation. The results have shown that the thermogravimetric analysis, PLS/TG, presented the best performance for the detection of vegetable oil contamination with a root mean square error of prediction (RMSEC% w/w) of 0.23, with a relative error of prediction of 3.6%, corroborating with the success of TG analysis application to determine the quality of biofuels and diesel/biofuel blends, showing that the TG analysis is an excellent tool to control quality of biofuels. |
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