Monitoring petroleum fuel adulteration: A review of analytical methods

BP Vempatapu, PK Kanaujia - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Detection of adulteration in the petroleum fuels (gasoline and diesel) is challenging because
the adulterants usually include those compounds which are already present in these fuels …

Reducing gasoline engine emissions using novel bio-based oxygenates: a review

G Dhamodaran, GS Esakkimuthu, T Palani… - Emergent …, 2023 - Springer
The rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere has already
reached a critical point. Day by day, the number of vehicles on the road is increasing in a …

Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Environmental turbulence, institutional voids and sustainability trajectories

BS Silvestre - International Journal of Production Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Although research on supply chain management has made many valuable contributions,
there is a dearth of empirical evidence and theoretical reflection on the characteristics of …

Properties of Brazilian gasoline mixed with hydrated ethanol for flex-fuel technology

RCOB Delgado, AS Araujo, VJ Fernandes Jr - Fuel processing technology, 2007 - Elsevier
In the present work, samples of Brazilian gasoline type C previously mixed with hydrated
ethanol at concentrations of 20, 40, 60 and 80 vol.% were analyzed by distillation, octane …

Effect of mono-olefins and diolefins on the stability of automotive gasoline

RCC Pereira, VMD Pasa - Fuel, 2006 - Elsevier
Gasoline is a volatile, inflammable liquid composed of a mixture of paraffinic, naphthenic,
olefinic, and aromatic hydrocarbons (C4–C12). During storage, these components react with …

Multivariate calibration in Fourier transform infrared spectrometry as a tool to detect adulterations in Brazilian gasoline

LSG Teixeira, FS Oliveira, HC dos Santos… - Fuel, 2008 - Elsevier
In the present work, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in association with
multivariate chemometrics classification techniques was employed to identify gasoline …

Use of principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) in gas chromatographic (GC) data in the investigation of gasoline adulteration

VL Skrobot, EVR Castro, RCC Pereira, VMD Pasa… - Energy & …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Chemometric data analysis was applied to chromatographic data as a modeling tool to
identify the presence of solvents in gasoline obtained at gas stations in the Minas Gerais …

[HTML][HTML] Fast batch injection analysis system for on-site determination of ethanol in gasohol and fuel ethanol

PF Pereira, MC Marra, RAA Munoz, EM Richter - Talanta, 2012 - Elsevier
A simple, accurate and fast (180injectionsh− 1) batch injection analysis (BIA) system with
multiple-pulse amperometric detection has been developed for selective determination of …

Synthesis and characterization of pyridine-functionalized magnetic mesoporous silica and its application for preconcentration and trace detection of lead and copper …

M Behbahani, AA Akbari, MM Amini, A Bagheri - Analytical Methods, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a study on the synthesis, characterization and application of a pyridine-
functionalized magnetic mesoporous silica material (called Py-Fe3O4@ MCM-41) as an …

Influence of solvent addition on the physicochemical properties of Brazilian gasoline

EV Takeshita, RVP Rezende, SMAGU De Souza… - Fuel, 2008 - Elsevier
The influence of several solvents (anhydrous ethanol, white spirit, alkylbenzene AB9, diesel)
on the physicochemical parameters of gasoline was studied according to ASTM …