Tallow Oil as a Raw Material for the Production of Biodiesel Fuel
The relevance of the article is due to the need to expand raw materials for the production of motor fuels and improve the toxicity of exhaust gases of internal combustion engines. The possibility of using tallow oil, a wood processing product, for the production of motor fuels is considered. The fatty acid composition of tallow oil and the technology of biodiesel production from tallow oil are presented. The physicochemical properties of this biodiesel fuel and their influence on the processes of fuel injection and atomization, mixing and combustion are analyzed. A method for calculating the cetane number of biofuels is described. The calculated values of the cetane number of the studied biodiesel fuel are determined. The expediency of using mixtures of petroleum diesel fuel and tallow oil methyl ether as motor fuel is shown.