Identification of adulteration of biofuel by addition of residual oil instead of biodiesel to the diesel by total spectrofluorimetry and principal component analysis

Abstract

Total spectrofluorimetry associated to Principal Components Analysis (PCA) were used to classify into different groups the samples of diesel oil, biodiesel, vegetal oil and residual oil, as well as, to identify addition of non-transesterified residual vegetable oil, instead of biodiesel, to the diesel oil. Using this method, the samples of diesel oil, mixtures of biodiesel in diesel and mixtures of residual oil in diesel were separated into well-defined groups.

adulteration; fuel; PCA