Author
GOERING, CARROLL - UNIV OF ILLINOIS, URBANA | |
Knothe, Gerhard | |
Dunn, Robert - Bob |
Submitted to: Annual Meeting and Expo of the American Oil Chemists' Society
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 5/13/1998 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: The ignition quality of fuels for compression-ignition engines is indicated by the fuel cetane number. The traditional method of measuring the cetane number, burning the fuel in a special CFR engine of variable compression ratio, is time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, the authors present a method of predicting the cetane numbers of ester fuels based on their fatty acid composition as determined by gas chromatography. |