title: A simple model to predict the biodiesel blend density as simultaneous function of blend percent and temperature.
abstract: A simple method to estimate the density of biodiesel blend as simultaneous function of temperature and volume percent of biodiesel is proposed. Employing the Kay's mixing rule, we developed a model and investigated theoretically the density of different vegetable oil biodiesel blends as a simultaneous function of temperature and volume percent of biodiesel. Key advantage of the proposed model is that it requires only a single set of density values of components of biodiesel blends at any two different temperatures. We notice that the density of blend linearly decreases with increase in temperature and increases with increase in volume percent of the biodiesel. The lower values of standard estimate of error (SEE = 0.0003-0.0022) and absolute average deviation (AAD = 0.03-0.15 %) obtained using the proposed model indicate the predictive capability. The predicted values found good agreement with the recent available experimental data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University College of Science, Tumkur, 572103, India.
authors.forename: Narayan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gaonkar
authors.affiliation: Department of Studies and Research in Physics and C.E.I.E., Tumkur University, Tumkur, 572103, India. ratnakarvaidya@gmail.com.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Vaidya
mesh_terms: D056804:Biofuels; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels
keywords: Biodiesel; Biofuel; Blend; Renewable energy