• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 5, Issue 2, 214 (2012)
Hui ZHAO1, Kun ZHAO1、2、*, Lu TIAN1, Qing MIAO1, and Hao NI1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Laboratory of Optic Sensing and Detecting Technology, College of Science, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-012-0227-4 Cite this Article
    Hui ZHAO, Kun ZHAO, Lu TIAN, Qing MIAO, Hao NI. Optical property of biodiesel and its base stock in terahertz region[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(2): 214 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Biodiesel (BD) is the product of catalysed transesterification reaction, in which fatty acid (FA) is transformed to fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), named BD. The frequency-dependent absorption and refractive characters of BDs and its base stocks have been researched in the spectral range of 0.2-1.5 THz by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). The BDs showed higher absorption value than those of its base stocks because of the concomitant, and the increasing of absorption coefficients of three BDs differed with the different transesterification technology. The results suggested that THz-TDS can be a promising method to the quality control and ester transfer efficiency analysis of BD.
    Hui ZHAO, Kun ZHAO, Lu TIAN, Qing MIAO, Hao NI. Optical property of biodiesel and its base stock in terahertz region[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(2): 214
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