BioFPro: a web based software for correlation and prediction of biofuels properties

JOSÉ GRANJO; NIEVES M.C. TALAVERA PRIETO; ABEL G.M. FERREIRA

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Conferencia; ChemPor 2018: 13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference; 2018

Univeridad de Aveiro y Orden de los Ingenieros (Portugal)

The need of thermophysical properties in the production,transportation, storage, and combustion of biofuels requires the availability of dedicated software for property prediction. Most of software packages for thermodynamic calculations or in commercial process simulators used in biofuel processing require commercial licenses that may have prohibitive acquisition or maintenance fees. There have been some rare attempts to generate free software in the scope of calculating biofuels thermodynamic properties. In this work, it is presented BioFPro, a new software for the estimation and correlation of biofuels thermophysical properties. Some of them (e.g. density and viscosity) are calculated in wide ranges of temperature and pressure, using different models based on the Principle of Corresponding States, the concept of Contribution of Groups and empirical correlations.