Green oxygenated compounds as components of B10 fuel

Abstract

This work is aimed to investigate the possibility of using glycerol-based oxygenate compounds, as well as pine oil, dioxane and cyclopentanone, as components of B10 fuel blends. As seen in our results, the fuel blend of B10 with the phenyl-1,3-dioxan-5-ol and 2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-ylmethanol mixtures, cyclopentanone, dioxane and solketal have shown better properties in terms of viscosity, flash point, cloud and pour temperatures, oxidation stability and corrosion resistance compared to diesel and B10. Plausible antioxidant mechanisms for glycerol ketals are proposed.