Improvement of the cold flow characteristics of biodiesel containing dissolved polymer wastes using acetone

Document Type : Short Communication

Authors

• Pouya Mohammadi ^{1, 2, 3}
• Meisam Tabatabaei ¹
• Ali M. Nikbakht ^{1, 2}
• Zahra Esmaeili ⁴

¹ Biofuel Research Team (BRTeam), Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), P.O. Box: 31535-1897, Karaj, Iran.

² Department of Mechanical Engineering in Farm Machinery, Urmia University, P.O. Box: 165, Urmia, Iran.

³ Department of Automotive Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Eyven-e-Gharb Branch, Ilam, Iran.

⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering in Farm Machinery, Khuzestan Ramin Agriculture and natural resources University, Khuzestan , Iran.

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Keywords

• Biodiesel
• Polymer wastes
• Bio-solvency properties
• Cold flow characteristic
• Cloud point
• Flash point