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Record Nr.

UNINA9911004714703321

Titolo

The biodiesel handbook / / editors, Gerhard Knothe, Jon Van Gerpen, Jurgen Krahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Champaign, Ill., : AOCS Press, ©2005

ISBN

1-00-304026-8

1-003-04026-8

1-60119-719-5

1-4398-2235-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

KnotheGerhard

Van GerpenJon Harlan

KrahlJurgen <1962->

Disciplina

662/.669

Soggetti

Biodiesel fuels

SCIENCE / Chemistry / General

SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic

SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

What is Biodiesel? / Gerhard Knothe -- The History of Vegetable Oil-Based Diesel Fuels / Gerhard Knothe -- The Basics of Diesel Engines and Diesel Fuels / Jon Van Gerpen -- Biodiesel Production / Jon Van Gerpen and Gerhard Knothe -- Alternate Feedstocks and Technologies for Biodiesel Production / Michael J. Haas and Thomas A. Foglia -- Analytical Methods for Biodiesel / Gerhard Knothe -- Cetane Numbers / Gerhard Knothe -- Viscosity / Gerhard Knothe -- Cold Weather Properties and Performance of Biodiesel / Robert O. Dunn -- Oxidation: Literature overview / Gerhard Knothe -- Stability of Biodiesel / Heinrich Prankl -- Biodiesel Lubricity / Leon Schumacher -- Biodegradability, Biological and Chemical Oxygen Demand and Toxicity of Biodiesel Fuels / C.L. Peterson and Gregory Moller -- Soybean Oil Composition for Biodiesel / Neal A. Bringe -- Impact of Biodiesel Fuel on Pollutant Emissions from Diesel Engines / Robert L. McCormick and Teresa L. Alleman -- Influence of Biodiesel and Different Petrodiesel Fuels on



Exhaust Emissions and Health Effects / Jurgen Krahl, Axel Munack, Olaf Schroder, Hendrik Stein, Jurgen Bunger -- Current Status of the Biodiesel Industry / Steve Howell and Joe Jobe -- Biodiesel in the European Union: Current Status of Legislation and Production / Dieter Bockey -- Biodiesel Quality Management; the AGQM story / Jurgen Fischer -- Status of Biodiesel in Asia, the Americas, Australia and South Africa / Werner Korbitz -- Environmental implications of biodiesel / Sven Gartner and Guido A. Reinhardt -- Potential Production of Biodiesel / Charles L. Peterson -- Other Uses of Biodiesel / Gerhard Knothe -- Other Alternative Diesel Fuels from Vegetable Oils / Robert O. Dunn.

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