Optimize the quality of Omani diesel fuel using additives of organic compounds

EasyChair Preprint 2303

Abstract

An experimental and optimize study was employed to study the effects of two different additives against pour point and cloud point temperatures of a diesel fuel. Sample mixtures were made in different volumetric percentages of two different additives of ethanol and methanol in the diesel fuel mixture. Pour point and cloud point temperatures of the blends were measured using standard, ASTM D5771 is used to measure cloud point temperature and ASTM D5950 is used to measure pour point temperature methods. In fact, the greatest obtained reduction in cloud point temperature was achieved using 10 Vol% or more of methanol-diesel fuel mixtures. Slightest amounts of additives caused a high reduction in the pour point temperature of the diesel fuel. Ethyl alcohol was the most effective additive in lowering the pour point temperature of the fuel. A 10% grain alcohol-fuel mixture caused nearly about 17 ^oC by reductions in the fuel pour point temperature. Thus, the greatest reduction in pour point temperature compared to the cloud point temperature. The simplex optimize algorithm method is applied to optimize high quality results with a minimum cost of the active additive compounds that be used to minimize pour point and cloud point temperatures.

Keyphrases: Diesel, Optimization, cloud point, pour point

@booklet{EasyChair:2303,
  author    = {Ahmmed Saadi Ibrahim and Mohammed Said and Malik Mohammed},
  title     = {Optimize the quality of Omani diesel fuel using additives of organic compounds},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2303},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}