The influence of straight vegetable oil fatty acid composition on compression ignition combustion and emissions

Fuel

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-143

  Hellier, Paul ^a   Ladommatos, Nicos ^a   Yusaf, Talal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Diesel combustion; Fatty acid structure; Micro algae; Straight vegetable oil

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOFUELS; DIESEL ENGINES; DIRECT INJECTION; FOSSIL FUELS; IGNITION; PALM OIL; SOYBEAN OIL; SUNFLOWER OIL; TEMPERATURE;

CHLORELLA PROTOTHECOIDES; COMPRESSION IGNITION; DIESEL COMBUSTION; INJECTION COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE; MICRO-ALGAE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAK HEAT RELEASE RATES; STRAIGHT VEGETABLE OIL;

FATTY ACIDS;

EID: 84914145247     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2014.11.021     Document Type: Article

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