BS EN 16300:2012

What is BS EN 16300 - Determination of Iodine value FAME in automotive fuels about? FAME is a type of biofuel produced from vegetable oils, animal fats, or waste cooking oils by a process called transesterification. BS EN 16300  discusses automotive fuels for the determination of iodine value in fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) to improve the quality of fat and oil derivatives. BS EN 16300  specifies a calculation procedure for the determination of Iodine value (“CIV” - “calculated iodine value”), of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) to be used either as automotive or heating fuel for diesel engines as specified in EN 14214 or as an extender for automotive fuel for diesel engines as specified in EN 590 . This procedure has originally been described in Annex B of EN 14214:2008 . The calculation procedure is now specified for methyl esters between C14 and C24. The calculation procedure uses as data entry the results from the gas chromatography determination (GC) according to EN 14103 of individual fatty acid methyl esters and is based on AOCS recommended practice Cd 1c – 85 for the determination of the iodine value of edible oil from its fatty acid composition. It is important to recognize that the latest version of EN 14103 is to be used for the determination of individual FAME components. Note 1: Experience from the field and from several precision evaluation campaigns in Germany and elsewhere indicates that the results of the determination of iodine v...