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论文类型：期刊论文
发表时间：2015-03-01
发表刊物：FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
收录刊物：SCIE、EI
卷号：131
页面范围：223-229
ISSN号：0378-3820
关键字：Biodiesel; Vapor pressure; Prediction; Group contribution
摘要：In this study, a group contribution method based on the Riedel equation was developed to predict the vapor pressures of fatty add methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl esters. A CH2 (ester) group was introduced to distinguish the fatty acid methyl, ethyl, propyl, and butyl esters. The group parameters were regressed based on a total of 4687 vapor pressure data. The results show that, the proposed group contribution method illustrates much better performance in predicting the vapor pressures of fatty acid methyl and ethyl esters, and comparable accuracy in predicting the vapor pressures of fatty acid propyl and butyl esters in comparison with Ceriani's group contribution method (Ceriani et al., 2013). A test set of 2584 experimental data was used to further verify the reliability of the proposed method and its superiority in accurately predicting the vapor pressure within the whole temperature range over Ceriani's group contribution method. By using these two group contribution methods, vapor pressures of ten biodiesels were also predicted, and the proposed group contribution method has a better accuracy with the overall average relative deviation of 5.49%. The temperature dependency of biodiesel vapor pressure is also well reproduced by the proposed method. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.