• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2014

Because food crops serve as the raw materials for biodiesel, the increasing use of biodiesel as an alternative fuel can lead to adverse effects such as food price inflation and may contribute to global starvation. To solve these problems, efforts are being made to explore various nonedible raw materials for producing biodiesel. Different raw materials impart different fuel characteristics to biodiesel. In this study, we synthesized pure fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), which is a biodiesel component, and then analyzed its fuel properties. The fuel properties of pure FAME would be useful in producing biodiesel from various new raw materials.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2009

Biodiesel produced from triglyceride which is main component of animal fats and vegetable oils by methanolysis was known for excellent lubricity. In this study, the lubricity of 12 kinds of biodiesel come from vegetable oils were analyzed using HFRR(High frequency reciprocating rig). The biodiesel synthesized from soybean oil has best lubricity by $153{\mu}m$ of wear scar in HFRR and used fried oil's biodiesel has slightly low lubricity by $299{\mu}m$. Also we have found that the lubricity of diesel was improved when mixing ratio of soybean biodiesel was increased in base diesel.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.584-599
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• 2017

Biodiesel is renewable, eco-friendly, clean burning diesel replacement that is consisted of short chain alkyl ester. Biodiesel is derived from the transesterification of vegetables oils or animal fats with alcohol. The process has some technical problems that must be resolved to reduce the high operation cost. Eco-friendly physical technologies by using microwave have successfully improved the transesterification for biodiesel production. This paper attempts to extensively review microwave-assisted technology for biodiesel production. Additionally, different types of catalyst for biodiesel production have been summarized. It is concluded that the microwave-assisted technique improves the reaction rate significantly in comparison with conventional methods. Therefore it can be a suitable method of reducing the reaction time and can also decreases the cost of biodiesel production.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.237-242
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• 2009

화석연료의 고갈과 원유가격 폭등으로 인해 이를 대체할 수 있는 다양한 연료의 개발이 이루어지고 있다. 동물성 지방이나 식물성 기름의 주성분인 트리글리세라이드를 메탄올과 반응시켜 생산된 바이오디젤은 기존의 석유디젤을 대체할 수 있는 친환경적인 연료로 알려져 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 유통중인 경유에 6종류의 원료별 바이오디젤을 일정 비율로 혼합한 뒤, 다양한 연료특성을 분석하였다. 바이오디젤의 농도가 높아질수록 밀도, 동점도, 인화점이 상승하였고, 저온특성은 악화되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 경유의 중요한 연료특성인 세탄가를 IQT를 이용해 측정한 결과, 바이오디젤의 혼합비율이 높아질수록, 유도세탄가가 높게 측정되었으며, 특히 팜유로부터 생산된 바이오디젤의 경우, 71.26의 높은 유도세탄가가 측정되었다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.95-100
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• 2016

As an alternative fuel, biodiesel has excellent lubricating property. Previously, our research group reported that the properties of biodiesels depended on their composed molecular structure. In this study, we investigate lubricity and the mechanism of lubricity improvement of synthesized biodiesel molecules. We synthesize four types of biodiesel components from fatty acid via fisher esterification and soybean biodiesel from soybean oil via transesterification in high yield (92-96%). We analyze the lubricity of the five 5 types of biodiesel using HFRR (high frequency reciprocating rig). We estimate that the mechanism of lubricity is relevant to the molecular structure and structure conversion of biodiesel. The test results indicate that the longer the length of molecules and the higher the content of olefin, the better the lubricity of the biodiesel molecules. However, the wear scar size of the first test samples’ do not show a regular pattern with the wear scar size of the second test samples’. Moreover, we investigated the structure conversion of the biodiesels by using GC-MS for the recovered biodiesel samples from the HFRR test. However, we do not detect structure conversion. Thus, we conclude that the lubricity of biodiesel depends on how effectively solid adsorption and boundary lubrication occurs based on the size of the molecule and the content of olefin in the molecule. In addition, HFRR test condition in not sufficient for Diels-Alder cyclization of biodiesel components.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.688-700
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• 2013

하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지를 이용하여 바이오디젤 생산에 대해 고찰하였다. 바이오디젤 생산의 밝은 전망에도 불구하고, 이를 상용화하기 위한 노력은 매우 제한되어 있다. 주요 장애물 중 하나는 전체 생산비용의 약 70~75%를 구성하는 정제 유지의 공급 원료와 연관된 높은 가격이다. 따라서 이를 극복하기 위하여 폐유나 낮은 품질 유지 등의 저가 원료를 사용하여 바이오디젤의 생산 비용을 낮추는 기술이 제안되어 왔다. 이런 측면에서 하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지는 비교적 저렴하여 유망한 원료로 평가받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 하수 슬러지로부터 추출된 유지를 이용한 바이오디젤의 생산기술을 검토하였다. 하수 슬러지로부터 유지 추출공정 및 에스테르화 전환공정 및 무촉매 열화학 전환공정을 살펴보았다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2009

Biodiesel (fatty acid alkyl esters), which is produced from sustainable resources such as vegetable oil, animal fat and waste oils, have used to as substitutes for petro-diesel. In this study, we investigate the performance of 30 L and 300 L pilot-scale biodiesel production system using alkali-catalyst transesterification from soybean oil and rapeseed oil produced at Jeju island in Korea. The 30 L-scale biodiesel production was performed to in the condition of reaction temperature $65^{\circ}C$, catalyst amount 1% (w/w) and oil to methanol molar ratio 1 : 8. At that reaction condition, the fatty acid methyl ester contents of product are above 98% within reaction time 30 min. Also, the conversion yield of over 98% was obtained in 300 L-scale biodiesel production system using rapeseed oil and soybean oil. The quality of biodiesel produced from reaction system was satisfied to recommended quality standard of Korea. Our results may provide useful information with regard to the scale-up of more economic and efficient biodiesel production process.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.701-714
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• 2013

최근 바이오디젤의 보급 활성화에 정책에 따라 석유제품에 바이오디젤 혼합량이 증가되고 있으며, 이러한 혼합량 증가에 따른 겨울철 저온특성과 산화안정성에 대한 문제가 제기되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 바이오디젤 혼합연료에 대하여 실제 저장환경을 모사하고, 저장 중 품질변화를 평가하여 저장환경별 산화 경향과 품질에 미치는 영향 등의 규명을 통해 산화 제품의 품질관리 방안을 제시하였다. 바이오디젤 혼합연료의 산화열화 평가 결과, 직접적인 햇빛 노출 및 대기노출이 없는 저장용기에서는 여름철 약 18주간은 산화에 의한 특별한 품질저하는 없었지만, PE 재질 플라스틱 용기의 경우 약 2주간의 햇빛노출에 급격한 산화가 일어나 품질저하를 초래하였다. 이러한 현상을 일부 품질변화뿐만 아니라 FT-IR 스펙트럼 변화로도 확인 할수 있었다. 하지만 산화가 상당히 진행된 연료라도 품질기준을 모두 만족하여 품질검사 항목만으로는 특별한 현상을 발견할 수 없었다. 즉, 품질기준을 만족하더라도 산화로 인한 산화 생성물(고분자물질, 유기산 등)에 의해 차량 문제를 유발할 수 있는 충분한 여지가 있었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2008

현재 화석연료사용의 급증으로 인한 지구온난화와 자원고갈의 문제가 전세계적으로 크게 대두되어지고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 세계적으로 재생 가능한 에너지로서 바이오매스의 개발에 관심을 기울이고 있다. 바이오디젤은 식물성유지 또는 동물성지방으로부터 전이에스테르화반응을 통해 생산되는 친환경적인 연료로 기존의 석유디젤을 대체할 수 있는 연료로 관심을 받고 있다. 본 총설에서는 현재 연구되어지고 있는 다양한 바이오디젤의 생산방법에 대해 살펴보았다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.135-143
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• 2013

In this study, we suggested effective countermeasure of biodiesel oxidation problems by investigating the oxidation degradation of biodiesels derived from variable resources and the level of oxidation stability of current distributing biodiesel blended fuels (2%) in Korea, and oxidation stability change according to storage time (for 3 month) and biodiesel blending ratio (2, 5, 7, 10%). By the composition analysis results of biodiesel from various resources which are possible to distribute in Korea, the biodiesel from animal fat has poor oxidation stability and cold performance, while the biodiesel from coconut and palm kernel which are considered as future potential raw material showed good oxidation stability and cold performance. The oxidation stability level of current distributing biodiesel blended fuels in Korea was excellent with showing over 30 hours (average 68 hours) stability, but the oxidation stability of the blended fuel with animal fat biodiesel having poor oxidation property (1.22 hours) was rapidly decreased to below 32 hours by mixing only 2%. Therefore, we have to pay attention to quality control of oxidation property, because the oxidation stability problem can be caused by increasing biodiesel blending ratio and diversifying raw materials those have worse property.