Fast determination of biodiesel content in commercial diesel/ biodiesel blends by using digital images and multivariate calibration

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Abstract

A new simple, rapid and inexpensive analytical method was developed to determine the biodiesel percentage in biodiesel/ diesel blends through simple digital images of samples obtained by scanning with a commercial scanner. Soybean biodiesel and petroleum diesel samples were acquired from refineries currently in operation. There were prepared several mixtures within the range 1.5 to 12.0% of biodiesel in diesel oil, using the same procedure as is done in industry. The analytical signals were images recorded with a scanner. This data was decomposed with different color systems: RGB, HSV, HLS, CMYK and Grayscale. Chemometrics models based on color signals obtained from different mixtures of biodiesel/diesel were built. The quantification by using partial least squares (PLS) resulted in a RMSEP value for biodiesel of 0.9% (w/w); this load approximately 10-times smaller than the corresponding calibration range, with a correlation of 0.96 between predicted and reference values.

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Ferreira Barbosa, M., Silva Do Nascimento, D., Grünhut, M., Vieira Dantas, H., Fernandez Band, B. S., Ugulino De Araújo, M. C., & Insausti, M. (2017). Fast determination of biodiesel content in commercial diesel/ biodiesel blends by using digital images and multivariate calibration. Analytical Sciences, 33(11), 1285–1289. https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.33.1285

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