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Biodiesel from Waste Olive Oil: Transesterification Kinetics, Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Consumption

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Highway and Urban Environment

Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries ((AGSB,volume 17))

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Biodiesel was produced by transesterification of waste olive oil with methanol catalyzed with sodium methoxide at 60°C. A simple kinetic model was developed for this process resulting in a second order reaction, first order in methanol and triglycerides, with a rate constant of 0.2245 L mol−1 min−1. The biodiesel obtained was characterized after the EN 14214 standard, and it was tested in a single cylinder laboratory engine. This waste olive oil biodiesel, added in a 5% vol to conventional fossil diesel, greatly reduces the NOx and particulate matter emissions, especially when using ternary blends of fossil diesel, biodiesel (5% vol) and ethanol (5% vol) BE-diesel fuel. It also significantly reduces the fuel consumption of the engine.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Fuels, School of Mines, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ríos Rosas 21, 28003, Madrid, Spain

    Laureano Canoira, Ramón Alcántara, Nikolaos Tsiouvaras, M. Jesús García- Martínez, Juan García Galeán & Alberto Llamas Lois

  2. School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Iroon Polytechniou 9, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Nikolaos Tsiouvaras, Evripidis Lois & Dimitrios M. Korres

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  1. Dept. Sanitary Engineering, Chalmers University Technology, Sven Hultins gatan 6, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden

    Sébastien Rauch

  2. Dept. Sanitary Engineering, Chalmers University Technology, Sven Hultins gatan 6, Göteborg, 412 96, Sweden

    G.M. Morrison

  3. E.T.S.I. Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Centro de Investigación del, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avda. Profesor Aranguren s/n, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Andrés Monzón

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Canoira, L. et al. (2009). Biodiesel from Waste Olive Oil: Transesterification Kinetics, Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Consumption. In: Rauch, S., Morrison, G., Monzón, A. (eds) Highway and Urban Environment. Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3043-6_7

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