Diesel Fuel Could Go Completely Natural, Thanks to Chemistry (7 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Diesel Fuel Could Go Completely Natural, Thanks to Chemistry (7 of 10)

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Miniature diesel engine with propeller. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 16, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.F. Pfister at Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'Biofuel by isomerizing metathesis of rapeseed oil esters with (bio)ethylene for use in contemporary diesel engines.'

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