Author(s)

Konan Edmond Kouassi^1*, Abollé Abolle¹, N’guessan Luc Brou¹, David Boa¹, N’guessan Raymond Kre², Kouassi Benjamin Yao³

¹Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et Physico-Chimie du Milieu (LTPCM), UFR-SFA, UNA, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
²Laboratoire de Physiques Fondamentales et Appliquées (LPFA), UFR-SFA, UNA, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
³Laboratoire des Procédés Industriels de Synthèse de l’Environnement et des Energies Nouvelles (LAPISEN) de l’Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny de Yamoussoukro, Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.

Fossil fuels cover around 80% of global energy consumption. However, the problems linked to their use justify the choice of using biofuel. In order to reduce as much as possible, diesel rate, an increase in the number of additives may be considered. Thus, in this work, the study of the used frying oil (UFO), bioethanol and diesel ternary system was undertaken. It emerges from this study that the addition of bioethanol reduces the viscosity and the density of the ternary system and permits a 90% substitution rate for diesel between the UFO and bioethanol. Finally, the percentage of oil becomes 40% after adding alcohol compared to the binary diesel crude vegetable oil mixture where this rate is 30%.

Biofuel, UFO-Bioethanol-Diesel Ternary, Density, Viscosity

Kouassi, K. , Abolle, A. , Brou, N. , Boa, D. , Kre, N. and Yao, K. (2024) Study of the Viscosity and Specific Gravity of the Ternary Used Frying Oil (UFO)-Bioethanol-Diesel System. Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, 12, 53-66. doi: 10.4236/msce.2024.124005.