In recent years biodiesel fuel has been considered as
an alternative
fuel for diesel engines. This fuel is made by transesterification
of vegetable oils (or animal fat) and alcohols in the presence of
a catalyst. Density and viscosity are two important properties that
are useful for selecting fuels. In this study the effects of temperature
and volume fraction of biodiesel and diesel on the density and kinematic
viscosity of blends were investigated. In the previous studies, some
correlations have been presented for the prediction of these two properties,
but the constants of these correlations differ depending on the type
of biodiesel and diesel. In this study two general correlations were
presented for estimating density and kinematic viscosity of the blends
at several temperatures. These correlations depend on the temperature,
volume fraction of biodiesel and diesel, and properties of pure biodiesel
and diesel (pure density at 293.15 K and pure kinematic viscosity
at 313.15 K). The predicted results showed high accuracy nevertheless
to the generality of their constants.
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