Temperature‐dependent kinematic viscosity of selected biodiesel fuels and blends with diesel fuel

W Yuan, AC Hansen, Q Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 2005Wiley Online Library
The kinematic viscosities of four biodiesel fuels—two natural soybean oil methyl esters, one
genetically modified soybean oil methyl ester, and one yellow grease methyl ester—and
their 75, 50, and 25% blends with No. 2 diesel fuel were measured in the temperature range
from 20 to 100° C in steps of 20° C. The measurements indicated that all these fuels had
viscosity‐temperature relationships similar to No. 2 diesel fuel, which followed the Vogel
equation as expected. A weighted semilog blending equation was developed in which the …
Abstract
The kinematic viscosities of four biodiesel fuels—two natural soybean oil methyl esters, one genetically modified soybean oil methyl ester, and one yellow grease methyl ester—and their 75, 50, and 25% blends with No. 2 diesel fuel were measured in the temperature range from 20 to 100°C in steps of 20°C. The measurements indicated that all these fuels had viscosity‐temperature relationships similar to No. 2 diesel fuel, which followed the Vogel equation as expected. A weighted semilog blending equation was developed in which the mass‐based kinematic viscosity of the individual components was used to compute the mixture viscosity. A weight factor of 1.08 was applied to biodiesel fuel to account for its effect on the mixture viscosity. The average absolute deviation achieved with this method was 2.1%, which was better than the uncorrected mass average blending equation that had an average absolute deviation of 4.5%. The relationship between the viscosity and the specific gravity of biodiesel fuels was studied. A method that could estimate the viscosity from the specific gravity of biodiesel fuel was developed. The average absolute deviation for all the samples using this method was 2.7%. The accuracy of this method was comparable to the weighted mass‐based semilog blending equation.
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