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Fuels and lubricants : journal for tribology, lubrication, application of liquid and gaseous fuels and combustion engineering, Vol. 46 No. 5, 2007.

Professional paper

BIODEGRADABLE VPCI BUILDING BLOCK FOR BIOFUELS

Boris Mikšić
Margarita Kharshan
Alla Furman

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Abstract

Abstract
For years the chemical industry has relied on petroleum as an ingredient in thousands of products. Numerous industrial product manufacturers use petroleum-derived substances in their formulations. However, the oil and gas are the focus of today’s energy concern, and their prices are also increasing by drastically. Tighter environmental regulations continue to put pressure on oil-based products and their users. These are the reasons why the use of renewable biobased products provides not only environmentally safe alternative to the manufacturers and users, but also offers comparable performance, economics and biodegradability of the final products.
Incorporation of Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitors (VpCI) in lubricating products provides a number of advantages. VpCIs, when added to the carrier, provide corrosion protection to machinery during the operation, storage or transportation period. Properly chosen combination of VpCIs prolongs service life of machinery by minimizing the corrosive wear of the fuel systems and storage tanks.
VpCI Building Blocks for Biofuels (BBB) and BBB Bio are the powerful corrosion inhibitors to control the corrosive characteristics of biobased fuels. BBB and BBB Bio incorporate patented VpCI technology to provide protection in all 3 biofuel phases: liquid, interface, and vapor phases. In addition, BBB Bio was developed with soybean oil as a carrier, it can be added to a variety of biofuel and regular types including diesel and gasoline during operation, storage, transport, and distribution BBB and BBB Bio are passing Rust test in accordance to MIL-PRF-25017 and ASTM D-665-92. Actual laboratory tests data, photos, and field applications are presented.

Keywords

vapour phase corrosion inhibitors; soybean oil methanolysate; gasoline/ethanol mixed fuel for spark ignition engines; biodiesel fuel, vegetable oil methyl esters (VOME)

Hrčak ID:

18185

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/18185

Publication date:

15.11.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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