TY - JOUR
T1 - Tri-fuel (diesel-biodiesel-ethanol) emulsion characterization, stability and the corrosion effect
AU - Low, M. H.
AU - Mukhtar, M. N.A.
AU - Hagos, Ftwi Yohaness
AU - Noor, M. M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by Universiti Malaysia Pahang under the internal grant RDU 150124.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - This paper presents the result of experimenting emulsified tri-fuel in term of stability, physico-chemical properties and corrosion effect on three common metals. The results were interpreted in terms of the impact of five minutes emulsification approach. Tri-fuel emulsions were varied in proportion ratio consist of biodiesel; 0%, 5%, 10%, and ethanol; 5%, 10%, 15%. Fuel characterization includes density, calorific value, flash point, and kinematic viscosity. Flash point of tri-fuel emulsion came with range catalog. Calorific value of tri-fuel emulsion appeared in declining pattern as more ethanol and biodiesel were added. Biodiesel promoted flow resistance while ethanol with opposite effect. 15% ethanol content in tri-fuel emulsion separated faster than 10% ethanol content but ethanol content with 5% yield no phase separation at all. Close cap under static immersion with various ratio of tri-fuel emulsions for over a month, corrosiveness attack was detected via weight loss technique on aluminum, stainless steel and mild steel.
AB - This paper presents the result of experimenting emulsified tri-fuel in term of stability, physico-chemical properties and corrosion effect on three common metals. The results were interpreted in terms of the impact of five minutes emulsification approach. Tri-fuel emulsions were varied in proportion ratio consist of biodiesel; 0%, 5%, 10%, and ethanol; 5%, 10%, 15%. Fuel characterization includes density, calorific value, flash point, and kinematic viscosity. Flash point of tri-fuel emulsion came with range catalog. Calorific value of tri-fuel emulsion appeared in declining pattern as more ethanol and biodiesel were added. Biodiesel promoted flow resistance while ethanol with opposite effect. 15% ethanol content in tri-fuel emulsion separated faster than 10% ethanol content but ethanol content with 5% yield no phase separation at all. Close cap under static immersion with various ratio of tri-fuel emulsions for over a month, corrosiveness attack was detected via weight loss technique on aluminum, stainless steel and mild steel.
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U2 - 10.1088/1757-899X/257/1/012082
DO - 10.1088/1757-899X/257/1/012082
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85035037896
SN - 1757-8981
VL - 257
JO - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
IS - 1
M1 - 012082
T2 - 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Research, ICMER 2017
Y2 - 1 August 2017 through 2 August 2017
ER -