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Crystallization behavior of fatty acid methyl esters and biodiesel based on differential scanning calorimetry and thermodynamic model

ABSTRACT Biodiesel is mainly composed of methyl palmitate (MeC16), methyl stearate (MeC18), and methyl oleate (MeC18:1). In order to explore the crystallization behavior of biodiesel, the thermal parameters of the three fatty acid methyl esters, their binary mixtures, and biodiesel have been analyzed based on the differential scanning calorimeter. Supposing that biodiesel is a complex solution of various fatty acid methyl esters, the saturated fatty acid methyl esters MeC16 and MeC18 are treated as solutes and the unsaturated fatty acid methyl ester MeC18:1 is served as the solvent; thus a thermodynamic model according to the solid–liquid equilibria for predicting the crystallization onset temperature has been established. As a result, the model is effectively verified when the estimated crystallization onset temperatures for four types of actual biodiesel are compared with the experimental results.