Simultaneous Determination of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Contents in the Biodiesel by HPLC-DAD Method

Yan-gang HAN, Yan LU, Shang-fu LIAO, Hong-bo CHEN, De-qing YU, Ming YANG, Zheng-jie MO

Abstract


This paper presents a reliable method for simultaneous analysis of ten kinds of fatty acid methyl esters in biodiesel with high performance liquid chromatography equipped with diode array detector. The separation column was a Pursuit XRs C18 (250 mm×4.6 mm) and the mobile phase was a mixture of methanol and acetonitrile (80:20, V/V). The analytical performance parameters such as linearity, accuracy, precision, limit of detection and limit of quantification were discussed. The calibration curves of ten components show good linearity with the correlation coefficient greater than 0.99. The proposed method is time and cost-effective, which could be used for the determination of the FAMEs in the commercial biodiesel product.

Keywords


Fatty acid methyl ester, Biodiesel, HPLC analysis, DAD.


DOI
10.12783/dtmse/ammme2016/6923

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