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Risk Evaluation of Biodiesel  

Kwon, Kyung-Ok (전주대학교 공과대학 소방안전공학과)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.22, no.5, 2008 , pp. 79-82 More about this Journal
Abstract
Biodiesel is manufactured from vegetable oils, etc. in reaction with methanol so that the product of biodiesel may be dangerous due to the methanol remained of it. The risks of methanol remained in biodiesel were studied by measuring flash points and dynamic viscosity to some samples of biodiesel by adding methanol to a certain percentage of. The results of flash points of biodiesel are decreased in accordance with increasing of methanol in biodiesel and also decreasing the dynamic viscosity. It was shown that the risks of explosion of biodiesel are significantly high due to lower flash points resulted from methanol remained in biodiesel fuel as a reactant or adding to biodiesel for reduction of viscosity.
Keywords
Biodiesel; Flash point of methanol; Risk evaluation; Dynamic viscosity;
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