Predicting the surface tension of biodiesel fuels by a mixture topological index method, at 313 K

Fuel

Volumn 87, Issue 17-18, 2008, Pages 3586-3590

  Shu, Qing ^a   Wang, Jinfu ^a   Peng, Baoxiang ^a   Wang, Dezheng ^a   Wang, Guangrun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Mixture topological index; Structure and property; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; BIODIESEL; CAPILLARITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; FOOD PROCESSING; FORECASTING; FUELS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LIQUIDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTORESISTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACE WAVES; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TOPOLOGY; WETTING;

ADJACENCY MATRICES; BIO-DIESEL FUEL; CARBON NUMBER; DISTANCE MATRICES; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; MEASURED VALUES; MIXTURE TOPOLOGICAL INDEX; REGRESSION EQUATIONS; RELATIVE ERROR; SOYBEAN OIL; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY; TOPOLOGICAL INDICES; UNSATURATED BONDS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 50649115291     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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