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Storage Stability Of Biofuel, Mahendra Varman Munusamy M. Varman Nov 2012

Storage Stability Of Biofuel, Mahendra Varman Munusamy M. Varman

Mahendra Varman Munusamy (M. Varman)

Biofuel is one of the prime candidates to take over the role played by fossil fuel as the main source of energy in the future. Numerous studies have been done on the potential of biofuel to produce similar power output generated by the current petrol and diesel which are depleting without any drawbacks. The objective of this particular study is to investigate 4 of the more established vegetable oil in the energy industry namely jatropha, palm, coconut and canola oil in terms of storage stability of biofuel at room temperature and 80ºC. The biofuels were tested in terms of density, …