Predicting temperature dependent viscosity for unaltered waste soybean oil blended with petroleum fuels

JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-459

  Wagner, Eugene Paul ^a   Koehle, Maura A ^a   Moyle, Todd M ^a   Lambert, Patrick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative fuels; Diesel fuel; Kinematic viscosity; Vegetable oil Waste vegetable oil; Viscosity modeling

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE AVERAGE DEVIATION; ARRHENIUS; ARRHENIUS METHOD; BINARY BLENDS; BLEND VISCOSITIES; CORRELATION CONSTANTS; HIGH VISCOSITIES; INTERACTION CORRECTIONS; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; MASS FRACTION; MULTICOMPONENT BLENDS; PETROLEUM FUELS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SOYBEAN OIL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; VEGETABLE OIL WASTE VEGETABLE OIL; VISCOSITY MODELING; VISCOSITY PREDICTION;

DIESEL ENGINES; DIESEL FUELS; FORECASTING; KINEMATICS; LUBRICATING OILS; VEGETABLE OILS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 78751678540     PISSN: 0003021X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11746-009-1512-2     Document Type: Article

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