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9.4 Application of biorefinery approach in biodiesel production 261
9.5 Conclusions 268
References 269
Further reading 276

10 Thermal depolymerization of biogas digestate as a viable
digestate processing and resource recovery strategy 277
Oseweuba Valentine Okoro, Zhifa Sun, John Birch
10.1 Introduction 277
10.2 Materials and methods 282
10.3 Comparative assessment of the economic performances of the
HTL based one-step processing of digestate and existing
digestate processing technologies 288
10.4 Results and discussions 295
10.5 Conclusions 303
Acknowledgment 304
References 304

11 Physicochemical fuel properties and tribological behavior
of aegle marmelos correa biodiesel 309
Vinoth Thangarasu, R. Anand
11.1 Introduction 309
11.2 Materials and methods 311
11.3 Results and discussion 318
11.4 Conclusions 333
11.5 Scope for future study 334
Acknowledgment 334
References 334

12 Ecofuel and its compatibility with different automotive metals
to assess diesel engine durability 337
Kalam Azad, M.G. Rasul, M.M.K. Khan, Subhash C. Sharma
12.1 Introduction 337
12.2 Methodology and associated theory 338
12.3 Results and discussions 340
12.4 Conclusion 349
References 349

13 Influence of fuel injection timing and nozzle opening pressure on a
CRDI-assisted diesel engine fueled with biodiesel-diesel-alcohol fuel 353
D. Babu, R. Anand
13.1 Introduction 353
13.2 Materials and methodology 357
13.3 Results and discussion 373
13.4 Conclusions 386
References 388