Study on the characteristics of palm oil–biodiesel–diesel fuel blend
Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, 2018 Palm oil/palm oil methyl esters are blends with diesel fuel, the blends were characterized as an alternative fuels for diesel engines. Density, kinematic viscosity, and flash point were estimated according to ASTM as key fuel properties.
R. El-Araby +4 more
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Biofuel scenarios in a water perspective: the global blue and green water footprint of road transport in 2030 [PDF]
, 2010 The trend towards substitution of conventional transport fuels by biofuels requires additional water. The EU aims In the last two centuries, fossil fuels have been our major source of energy.
A. R. Van Lienden +4 more
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Química Nova, 2014 We propose an analytical method based on fourier transform infrared-attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) spectroscopy to detect the adulteration of petrodiesel and petrodiesel/palm biodiesel blends with African crude palm oil.
Armando Guerrero Peña +6 more
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Towards Understanding the Politics of Flex Crops and Commodities: Implications for Research and Policy Advocacy [PDF]
, 2014 This discussion paper offers a preliminary exploration of the concept and phenomenon of “flex crops and commodities”, building on an earlier and initial analysis and abbreviated idea put forward by some of the authors of this paper.
Borras, Saturnino M. +4 more
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Performance of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) as Biodiesel Source Based on Different Ponds
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to prove that waste palm oil industry (POME) can be used as raw material (source of energy) for biodiesel. In the production process, palm oil mill produced large amounts of waste.
Leela Deodata +3 more
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Recalculating Default Values for Palm Oil [PDF]
On 05 December 2010, the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) came into force in the EU. Member States are still working to fully transpose the Directive into national law and establish a framework for achieving their legally binding greenhouse gas (GHG ...
Christoph Vietze, Gernot Pehnelt
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Biofuels, Climate Policy and the European Vehicle Fleet [PDF]
, 2009 and PDF report are also available on the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://globalchange.mit.edu/).We examine the effect of biofuels mandates and climate policy on the European vehicle fleet, considering the ...
Gitiaux, Xavier +3 more
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Exploring Oil Palm Fruit Pulp for Direct Biodiesel Production via In-Situ Transesterification
Journal of Applied Science & Process EngineeringConventional biodiesel production from palm oil requires separate extraction and transesterification steps, leading to increased costs and complexity.
CHEN XI LIM, ramli Mat
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Climate change affects fungal diseases of the important oil palm crop [PDF]
, 2017 Book of Abstracts of CEB Annual Meeting 2017[Excerpt]Palm oil is a very important commodity used in 40% of supermarket products, cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and increasingly, biodiesel.
Lima, Nelson, Paterson, R. Russell M.
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Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Cooking Palm Oil Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) Approaces [PDF]
, 2012 Biodiesel is one of the renewable energy resource which is suitable to replace the fossil fuel due to the depletion of fossil fuel in the future. The modeling of the design of experiment for optimization of biodiesel production from cooking palm oil is ...
Muhammad Fadhlul Hanin, Ismail
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