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Design and application of chemometric methods to the determination of compounds of interest in biodiesels

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Treballs Finals de Grau de Química, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2013, Directora: Anna de Juan Capdevila

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The increasing exhaustion of fossil fuels and the environmental concern about the
consequent increased greenhouse gas emissions have propelled the development of biofuels.
Because of its similar physicochemical properties, biodiesel is an alternative to diesel fuels
made from petroleum. Biodiesel consists of a mixture of alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids
susceptible to oxidation. The quality parameters of biodiesel must be analyzed by wellestablished
analytical methodologies, rapid and accessible to meet the growing demand for this
product.
Several analytical techniques have been used for biodiesel analysis. Within them, the
spectroscopic techniques have been played an important role, since they allow direct, fast and
non-destructive analysis of biodiesel samples. One of the main problems of such techniques is
the lack of selectivity found in the spectroscopic measurements of complex samples, which
makes classical calibration methods fail. Therefore, chemometric tools have been largely applied in combination with spectroscopic data for biodiesel analysis...

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Design and application of chemometric methods to the determination of compounds of interest in biodiesels

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Diseño y aplicación de métodos quimiométricos para la determinación de compuestos de interés en biodiésel