Artículos de revistas
Analytical Methods Employed at Quality Control of Fuel Ethanol
Fecha
2009-10-01Registro en:
Energy & Fuels. Washington: Amer Chemical Soc, v. 23, p. 4852-4859, 2009.
0887-0624
10.1021/ef900493k
WOS:000270671800022
0072173018005712
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Institución
Resumen
The existence of organic and inorganic contaminants present in both fossil and biomass fuels and the fact that they can provide undesirable effects (environmental problems, corrosion processes, lead to storage instability, and others) implies a rigorous quality control of these fuels, although these contaminants make up a small part of the final fuel composition. Considering the rising importance of fuel ethanol in the worldwide panorama, this review aims at reporting the use of successful alternative analytical methods in the monitoring of organic and inorganic contaminants at trace levels, used to determine and to quantify these substances in fuel ethanol and also presenting all official norms for quality control of fuel ethanol employed by ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Norms), ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials), and ECS (European Committee for Standardization).