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The lack of the fossil fuel, environmental pollution and food disaster are the world’s major issues in current era. This research was carried out in commercial plant - rubber seed oil as a fuel. The production process of biodiesel comprises of two steps, esterification, and transesterification. The present work was investigating on the oxidation process of non-edible Hevea brasiliensis blends with an aid of Rancimat oxidation method. At different temperature the oxidation capacity of varies biodiesel blend was calculated. Form that the better oxidation biodiesel blend was identified. Properties like flash point, fire point and kinematic viscosity were assessed for representation of the samples. The fluid properties nearer to the diesel fuel were identified. Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to recognize the functional groups of the samples. For the different ratio of biodiesel and diesel blends, the presence of alkenyl C-H Stretch, alkyl C-H Stretch, carboxylic acid C=O Stretch, C-H bend, and O-H bend were analyzed. The blends which confirm the alkyl C-H Stretch, ester C=O Stretch and C-H bend are present with Decane structure. This result shows the possibility of improving the Hevea brasiliensis blends closer to diesel properties and may be vial for commercial usage. |
