Predicting the temperature dependent viscosity of biodiesel-diesel- bioethanol blends

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5767-5774

  Barabás, István ^a   Todoruţ, Ioan Adrian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MODELS; BLEND FUELS; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; COMMERCIAL FUELS; COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; QUALITY STANDARD; RAPESEED OIL; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; RELIABLE MODELS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TERNARY MIXTURES; WEIGHTED RULES;

BIODIESEL; DIESEL ENGINES; ESTIMATION; ETHANOL; QUALITY CONTROL; VEGETABLE OILS; VISCOMETERS;

BIOETHANOL;

EID: 84859884904     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef2007936     Document Type: Article

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