THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A MIXTURE OF KEROSENE AND BIODIESEL AS A SUBSTITUTED DIESEL FUEL

Abstract

Physicochemical properties characterization a mixture of biodiesel and kerosene were carried out to
investigate their potential use as a substituted diesel fuel for domestic purposes. The characteristic assessments
were done by comparing the standard requirement for diesel fuel. The properties characterization of the
biodiesel blends with kerosene were density, viscosity, pour point, cloud point, distillation, and cetane number,
which is related to the cold fl ow properties of biodiesel. The characteristics fuel property of biodiesel blends
with kerosene in proportion at 2.5:97.5, 5:95, 10:90, 15:85, 20:80, 30:70, and 50:50 was found mostly
meet the requirement the specifi cation of diesel fuel. Biodiesel is mixed with kerosene to bring many of the
benefi cial characteristics to be a substituted diesel fuel. Overall physicochemical characteristics of blending
fuel were reduced by the increasing of kerosene concentrations. Kerosene can play a role as a diluent agent
to reduce the characteristic of cold fl ow properties of biodiesel.