✦ LIBER ✦
Using proton nuclear magnetic resonance as a rapid response research tool for methyl ester characterization in biodiesel
✍ Scribed by Marc ter Horst; Stephanie Urbin; Rachel Burton; Christina McMillan
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 394 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0956-666X
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Reliable and rapid analysis remains a high priority for quality control in biodiesel production. Quantifying biodiesel with alternative analytical tools such as proton nuclear magnetic resonance (^1^H NMR) can provide total methyl esters distributions without significant sample pretreatment. Using unique spectra of individual methyl esters, we investigate the feasibility of using ^1^H NMR spectroscopy to identify and quantify relative and absolute concentrations of methyl esters in a biodiesel.