Tribology with biodiesel: A study on enhancing biodiesel stability and its fuel properties

F Sundus, MA Fazal, HH Masjuki - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a potential renewable and biodegradable fuel source comprising of fatty acid
methyl esters (FAME). It is produced from transesterification reaction of animal fats and …

Biodiesel properties and automotive system compatibility issues

KA Sorate, PV Bhale - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Acceptability of biodiesel by automotive sector is limited due to some of its adverse
properties such as cold flow properties, oxidation stability and corrosiveness with automotive …

Performance evaluation of diesel engine using biodiesels from waste coconut, sunflower, and palm cooking oils, and their hybrids

MM Niyas, A Shaija - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern food industries are using cooking oils in the blended/hybrid form to improve fried
food's nutritional quality and taste. In the current study, biodiesels were produced from waste …

Energy balance, costs and CO2 analysis of tillage technologies in maize cultivation

E Šarauskis, S Buragienė, L Masilionytė… - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
To achieve energy independence, Lithuania and other Baltic countries are searching for
new ways to produce energy. Maize is a crop that is suitable for both food and forage, as …

Analysis of blended fuel properties and cycle-to-cycle variation in a diesel engine with a diethyl ether additive

OM Ali, R Mamat, HH Masjuki, AA Abdullah - Energy conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, the effect of adding small portions of a diethyl ether additive to biodiesel–diesel
blended fuel (B30) was investigated. This study includes an evaluation of the fuel properties …

The energy and environmental evaluation of maize, hemp and faba bean multi-crops

K Romaneckas, A Švereikaitė, R Kimbirauskienė… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Agriculture uses a lot of fuel, fertilizers, pesticides and other substances, while emitting large
amounts of GHGs. It is important to optimize these inputs and outputs. One such way is by …

Performance of Sunflower Oil as a sensible heat storage medium for domestic applications

A Mawire - Journal of Energy Storage, 2016 - Elsevier
Experimental results evaluating the thermal performance of edible Sunflower Oil as a heat
storage medium for domestic cooking applications are presented. The thermal performance …

Castor oil, a source for biodiesel production and its impact on the diesel engine performance

SA Hajlari, B Najafi, SF Ardabili - Renewable Energy Focus, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Castor oil ethyl ester was produced.•The physical properties of produced
biodiesel was considered.•The produced biodiesel was placed under performance and …

Physicochemical properties of diethyl ether—Sunflower oil blends and their impact on diesel engine emissions

K Górski, R Smigins, J Matijošius, A Rimkus, R Longwic - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, an analysis of the physico-chemical properties of diethyl ether/sunflower oil
blends, as well as changes in emissions in work with AD3. 152 diesel engine, were realized …

[PDF][PDF] Using SVM-RSM and ELM-RSM approaches for optimizing the production process of methyl and ethyl esters

SF Ardabili, B Najafi, M Alizamir, A Mosavi… - Energies, 2018 - core.ac.uk
The production of a desired product needs an effective use of the experimental model. The
present study proposes an extreme learning machine (ELM) and a support vector machine …