How different is diesel from biodiesel, really? - Materials Today
Australian researchers have found that particulate emissions from a diesel exhaust are heavily influenced by the fuel’s composition
According to the European Commission, biofuels now represent around 5 per cent of all transport fuel used in member states. Biodiesel – made from plant or vegetable oils – has been attracting particular attention because of the ease with which it can be blended into traditional petrodiesel. But a new paper in the latest issue of Carbon [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.03.061] has shown that the blending process alters much more than the final fuel’s chemical composition.
N. Savic, M.M. Rahman, B. Miljevic, H. Saathoff, K.H. Naumann, T. Leisner, J. Riches, B. Gupta, N. Motta, Z.D. Ristovski, “Influence of biodiesel fuel composition on the morphology and microstructure of particles emitted from diesel engines”, Carbon 104 (2016) 178–189. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.03.061
