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Assessment of the Viability of Vegetable Oil Based Fuels

Authors : I. F. Thomas, N. A. Porter, P. Lappas

Published in: Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2013

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper provides results of extensive trials using a 50/50 blend of unheated vegetable oil and diesel fuel in an unmodified vehicle on roads in Victoria, Australia. The work was inspired by the success of an on-road trial using 100 % waste vegetable oil in 2004 and positive indications in the literature. As well as being a sustainable alternative fuel, vegetable oil has the added safety advantage of having a much higher flash point than any other. Constant routes were used analogous in-part, to using prescribed drive cycles. Results were logged and bar-charts comparing fuel consumption for various fuel blends are presented. There was no clearly discernible difference (within the uncertainty of the measured data) in fuel consumption between the 50/50 blend and diesel fuel.

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Title: Assessment of the Viability of Vegetable Oil Based Fuels
Authors: I. F. Thomas
N. A. Porter
P. Lappas
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2013
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-01883-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-01884-3

Copyright Year: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01884-3_2

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