S. Schober, Ingrid Seidl, A. Meinitzer
Aug 1, 2009
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European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology
Abstract
A gas chromatographic method for the determination of fatty acid methyl esters with four or more double bonds in biodiesel was developed and tested. The method is based on gas chromatographic separation on a wax capillary column using methyl tricosanoate as internal standard. The performance of the method was proved with the participation of 11 European laboratories by a Round Robin test on six different biodiesel samples containing different amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acid methyl esters. The results showed that the precision is sufficient around the EN 14214 limit of 1 % (m/m). At lower concentrations the variation is too high. The scope of the application can be given between as 0.6 and 1.5%.