Low-temperature fluidity of bio-diesel fuel prepared from edible vegetable oil

Petroleum Processing and Petrochemicals

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 57-60

  Wu, Miaoxin ^a,b   Wu, Guoying ^b   Han, Lifeng ^b   Wang, Junde ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diesel fuel; Fatty acid ester; Fluidity; Low temperature; Vegetable oil; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 19144372849     PISSN: 10052399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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