A series
of physicochemical studies performed on Brazilian commercial
Bx (0%, 7%, 20%, and 100% soybean/tallow biodiesel) mixtures in S10
and S500 oil diesel, as well as the performance of two rapid and still
underexplored techniques, namely, FTIR-HATR and Raman spectroscopies,
to evaluate the hydrolysis and oxidative stability of these blends
are reported. The addition of biodiesel to diesel affects negatively
the aging resistance of the resulting blends. S500 blends are more
acidic than S10 blends, in accordance with the higher water content
of the former. Rancimat accelerated oxidative stability tests showed
that, as expected, the induction times of B7 and B20 samples are greater
than that of B100, independent of the sulfur content of the diesel.
The practical use of FTIR-HATR to characterize the mixtures’
degradation stage is conditioned by the fact that there are two chemical
contributions for the studied band. On the other hand, Raman spectroscopy
represents a very suitable spectroscopic probe for unsaturations in
the fatty acids chains of biodiesel. Since FTIR-HATR and Raman spectroscopies
do not require any sample preparation, are fast and quite low cost
techniques, and cause low impact to the environment, further attention
must be paid to their use in the analysis of biodiesel-containing
fuels degradation.
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