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MICROEMULSION FUELS FROM VEGETABLE OIL BASED RENEWABLE RESOURCE USING MIXED NONIONIC SURFACTANT AND COSURFACTANT SYSTEMS

Published In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIO-TECHNOLOGY
Author(s): AMPIRA CHAROENSAENG , NOULKAMOL ARPORNPONG , SIRINEE PENGPREECHA , SUTHA KHAODHIAR

Abstract: Vegetable oils are of interest as a bio-based feedstock in the production of environmentally friendly alternative fuel. Microemulsification is an emerging technology to formulate mixtures of thermodynamically stable, isotropic liquid fuels, containing two or more immiscible phases stabilized by surfactant. In this study, three components including oil (vegetable oil/diesel blends), ethanol, and surfactant were conducted to formulate bio-based microemulsion fuels. The mixture of oils contain vegetable oil (palm oil or used palm oil or soybean oil) blended with regular diesel or biodiesel at a ratio of 50:50% (v/v), representing the non-polar phase. Ethanol facilitates the viscosity reducer, which is used as the polar phase. Mixed nonionic alcohol ethoxylate surfactant (C12-14-(EO)1-OH) and cosurfactants (octanol and ethylene glycol butyl ether) at a 1:8 molar ratio were selected to formulate reverse micelle microemulsion. The effects of vegetable oil types and cosurfactant structures on

  • Publication Date: 09-Mar-2014
  • DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-001-9-20
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STUDY OF TRAFFIC FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION USING IMAGE PROCESSING

Published In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIO-TECHNOLOGY
Author(s): E.RASULMOHIDEEN , K.YOGESWARI

Abstract: A sustainable condition for this planet is one in which there is stability for both social and physical systems, achieved through meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Over a last decade, planning authorities in developing countries moved from conventional approach to integrated approach in urban planning activities. Transportation planning and management needs accurate and timely spatial and non-spatial information like network, capacity, speed etc. Collecting microscopic data is difficult under heterogeneous traffic conditions. In this paper, an attempt is made to study a microscopic analysis of traffic data using video image processing software TRAZER. This system can automatically analyze traffic videos and provide macroscopic traffic characteristics such as classified vehicles flows, average vehicle speeds and average occupancies and microscopic characteristics such as individual vehicle trajectories, later

  • Publication Date: 09-Mar-2014
  • DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-001-9-21
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