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Comparison of Diesel Fuel Oxygenates with Composition-Explicit Distillation Curve Method Part 1: Linear Compounds with One to Three Oxygens

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Author(s)

Thomas J. Bruno, Tara Lovestead, Jennifer Riggs, Erica Jorgensen, Marcia L. Huber

Abstract

There is a great deal of interest in formulating oxygenated diesel fuels that produce low particulate emissions. The most common oxygenating additives for diesel fuels include the glycol ethers, glycol esters, alcohols, ethers and ketones. It is important to characterize the mixture properties of diesel fuel with oxygenate additives, to assess the degree of departure of the oxygenated fuels from the base fuel. One of the most important properties to use for this purpose is the volatility, as expressed by the distillation curve. We have recently introduced several important improvements in the measurement of distillation curves of complex fluids. The modifications to the classical measurement provide for (1) a composition explicit data channel for each distillate fraction (for both qualitative, quantitative and trace analysis), (2) temperature measurements that are true thermodynamic state points that can be modeled with an equation of state, (3) temperature, volume and pressure measurements of low uncertainty suitable for equation of state development, (4) consistency with a century of historical data, (5) an assessment of the energy content of each distillate fraction, and (6) a corrosivity assessment of each distillate fraction. In this paper, we present measurements for dimethoxymethane, butylmethyl ether, 1,2-dimethoxyethane, 2-methoxyethyl acetate, 2-ethoxyethyl acetate.
Citation
Energy and Fuels
Volume
25
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

advanced distillation curve, diesel fuel, oxygenate
Fuels, Conventional energy, Chemistry and Analytical chemistry

Citation

Bruno, T. , Lovestead, T. , Riggs, J. , Jorgensen, E. and Huber, M. (2011), Comparison of Diesel Fuel Oxygenates with Composition-Explicit Distillation Curve Method Part 1: Linear Compounds with One to Three Oxygens, Energy and Fuels (Accessed April 18, 2024)

Created May 1, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021