The Biodiesel Handbook by G. Knothe, J. V. Gerpen and J. Krahl

Contents
1 Introduction
Gerhard Knothe
2 The History of Vegetable Oil-Based Diesel Fuels
Gerhard Knothe
3 The Basics of Diesel Engines and Diesel Fuels
Jon Van Gerpen
4 Biodiesel Production
4.1 Basics of the Transesterification Reaction
Jon Van Gerpen and Gerhard Knothe
4.2 Alternate Feedstocks and Technologies for Biodiesel Production
Michael J. Haas and Thomas A. Foglia
5 Analytical Methods for Biodiesel
Gerhard Knothe
6 Fuel Properties
Gerhard Knothe
6.1 Cetane Numbers–Heat of Combustion–Why Vegetable
Oils and Their Derivatives Are Suitable as a Diesel Fuel
Gerhard Knothe
6.2 Viscosity of Biodiesel
Gerhard Knothe
6.3 Cold Weather Properties and Performance of Biodiesel
Robert O. Dunn
6.4 Oxidative Stability of Biodiesel
6.4.1 Literature Overview
Gerhard Knothe
6.4.2 Stability of Biodiesel
Heinrich Prankl
6.5 Biodiesel Lubricity
Leon Schumacher
6.6 Biodiesel Fuels: Biodegradability, Biological and Chemical Oxygen
Demand, and Toxicity
C.L. Peterson and Gregory Möller
6.7 Soybean Oil Composition for Biodiesel
Neal A. Bringe
7 Exhaust Emissions
7.1 Effect of Biodiesel Fuel on Pollutant Emissions
from Diesel Engines
Robert L. McCormick and Teresa L. Alleman
7.2 Influence of Biodiesel and Different Petrodiesel Fuels
on Exhaust Emissions and Health Effects
Jürgen Krahl, Axel Munack, Olaf Schröder, Hendrik Stein,
and Jürgen Bünger
8 Current Status of the Biodiesel Industry
8.1 Current Status of Biodiesel in the United States
Steve Howell and Joe Jobe
8.2 Current Status of Biodiesel in the European Union
Dieter Bockey
8.2.1 Biodiesel Quality Management: The AGQM Story
Jürgen Fischer
8.3 Status of Biodiesel in Asia, the Americas, Australia,
and South Africa
Werner Körbitz
8.4 Environmental Implications of Biodiesel (Life-Cycle
Assessment)
Sven O. Gärtner and Guido A. Reinhardt
8.5 Potential Production of Biodiesel
Charles L. Peterson
9 Other Uses of Biodiesel
Gerhard Knothe
10 Other Alternative Diesel Fuels from Vegetable Oils
Robert O. Dunn
11 Glycerol
Donald B. Appleby
Appendix A: Technical Tables
Appendix B: Biodiesel Standards
Appendix C: Internet Resources