Table 1.
Important Properties of Different Biodiesels Compared With Diesel Fuel including JFB reported previously, but not for Ethiopian variant juliflora.
| Biodiesel feedstocks | Important biodiesel properties |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinematic viscosity @40 °C,in (mm2/sec) | Density @40 °C, (kg/m3) | Gross calorific value (MJ/kg) | Flash point (°C) | Cetane number | References | |
| Juliflora | 3.25–6.8 | 887–930 | 37.6–43.04 | 181–376 | 45–49 | [19,21,24] |
| Cotton seed | 32.8–36.0 | 911–921 | 40.1–40.8 | 210–243 | 42–59.5 | [48,49] |
| Karanja | 27.8–56 | 870–928 | 36–42.1 | 198–263 | 45–67 | [19,48,49] |
| Hemp seed | 4.72 | 904 | 39.1 | 162 | 42.7 | [19,50] |
| Mahua | 24.6–37.6 | 891–960 | 36.8–43.0 | 212–260 | 43.5 | [19,50,51] |
| Jojoba curcas | 19.2–25.4 | 863–866 | 42.7–47.48 | 61–75 | 63.5 | [48,49] |
| Linseed | 16.2–36.6 | 865–950 | 37.5–42.2 | 108–242 | 28–35 | [19,48,50] |
| Jatropha | 24.5–52.7 | 901–940 | 37.2–43 | 180–280 | 33.7–52 | [38,49,51,52] |
| Polanga | 4–5.34 | 888.6–910 | 39.25–41.3 | 151–170 | 57.3 | [48,52] |
| Castor | 17.14–25 | 922 | 38.09–39.5 | 178.56 | 37.55–42.3 | [38] |
| Diesel | 2.0–3.62 | 810–840 | 42–43.8 | 45–62 | 45 min | [19,21,24,50] |