Corn and rice waste: a comparative and critical presentation of methods and current and potential uses of treated waste

IS Arvanitoyannis, P Tserkezou - International journal of food …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Although corn and rice waste can be hardly classified among the most hazardous waste,
their treatment is very important in view of the great volume of waste materials involved. In …

[HTML][HTML] Portable near infrared spectroscopy applied to fuel quality control

RM Correia, E Domingos, VM Cáo, BRF Araujo… - Talanta, 2018 - Elsevier
Fuel quality control has gained interest in many countries owing to the potential damage of
low-quality fuel to engines, the environment, and economy. Thus, the application of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Detection and quantification of adulterants in gasoline using distillation curves and multivariate methods

G Mendes, PJS Barbeira - Fuel, 2013 - Elsevier
This study has shown that the use of distillation curves combined with PCA (Principal
Component Analysis) and PLS-DA (Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis) provides a …

Determination of residual oil in diesel oil by spectrofluorimetric and chemometric analysis

CNC Corgozinho, VMD Pasa, PJS Barbeira - Talanta, 2008 - Elsevier
Multivariate calibration (PLS), principal components analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant
analysis (LDA), associated to synchronous spectrofluorimetry, were used to identify and …

QCM virtual multisensor array for fuel discrimination and detection of gasoline adulteration

NC Speller, N Siraj, S Vaughan, LN Speller, IM Warner - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
Herein, a simplistic quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) approach for discrimination of
petroleum based fuels is presented. In this regard, a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) …

Hand-held refractometer-based measurement and excess permittivity analysis method for detection of diesel oils adulterated by kerosene in field conditions

B Kanyathare, KE Peiponen - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Adulteration of fuels is a major problem, especially in developing and third world countries.
One such case is the adulteration of diesel oil by kerosene. This problem contributes to air …

Proposal of novel photonic crystal fibre for sensing adulterated petrol and diesel with kerosene in terahertz frequencies

I Kabir Yakasai, PE Abas, F Begum - IET Optoelectronics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A novel liquid‐core photonic crystal fibre (LC‐PCF) based on the Zeonex substrate has
been proposed for sensing the varying concentration of kerosene in petrol and diesel fuels …

A prototype of an optical sensor for the identification of diesel oil adulterated by kerosene

B Kanyathare, K Kuivalainen, J Räty… - Journal of the …, 2018 - jeos.edpsciences.org
Background: Liquid fuel adulteration has several far-reaching impacts such as
environmental pollution. A widespread practice is typically the adulteration of diesel oil by …

A numerical investigation on the injection timing of boot injection rate-shapes in a kerosene-diesel engine with a clustered dynamic adaptive chemistry method

D Zhou, KL Tay, Y Tu, J Li, W Yang, D Zhao - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we conducted a numerical investigation on the effect of injection timing of boot
injection rate shape on the combustion and emission characteristics in a direct injection …