Open AccessResponse Factor in GC-FID Methyl Ester Analysis in Several Biodiesels: A Comparative Study of the EN 14103:2011 and ABNT 15764:2015 Methods versus a Proposed GC-FID Procedure for Individual Ester Determination
Author(s) -
Willian da Silva,
A.R. Gomes de Oliveira,
Matthieu Tubino
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of the brazilian chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1678-4790
pISSN - 0103-5053
DOI - 10.21577/0103-5053.20210144
Subject(s) - flame ionization detector , biodiesel , chemistry , chromatography , gas chromatography , approximation error , analytical chemistry (journal) , organic chemistry , mathematics , statistics , catalysis
A gas chromatography method with a flame ionization detector enabled by relative response factor was developed to determine the individual and the total content of esters in biodiesel. This method accounts for different response factors of the detector for a homologous series of esters that may be present in biodiesel. In this way, the determination of the total ester content of a reference sample (100.5%) was done with more accuracy by the proposed procedure (100.2%) than by official analytical methods: EN (74.68%) and ABNT (118.2%). Another advantage of the developed method is the possibility of determining individual ester concentrations, which provides information on several important biodiesel properties such as oxidative stability and cold flow properties. The mean absolute error in the determination of the individual ester content was ca. 1.1%.