Tecpar UFPR and develop new method to control fuel mixtureA method to determine what percentage of biodiesel blend in diesel oil, developed by researchers at the Technology Institute of Paraná (Tecpar) and two professors from the Department of Physics, Federal University of Parana (UFPR), is in the process of recognition national and international patent and reference may be to control the fuel.
The main advantage of this method, which basically consists of the analysis of changes resulting from the emission of infrared radiation in the fuel, is that it is quite simple and can be used in portable equipment, facilitating the monitoring work at gas stations. From the moment the research is published abroad, later to patent applications in Brazil and the United States, the method has gained international visibility.
The patent process WO/2009/009843, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, its acronym in English) in early 2009, has not yet been completed. In Brazil there is a request to expedite the processing priority.
This technology, developed by researcher Bill Tecpar Jorge Costa and Marcelo Alisk by the employee, with teachers UFPR Wanderley Veiga and Cyro Ketzer Saul, has gained increasing importance in Brazil - especially since the approval of the Federal Law 11.097, which requires addition of 5% biodiesel in diesel fuel by 2013 pure. The physicist Marcelo Alisk was student of expertise in sensors of the Physics Department, UFPR, conducted with support from Tecpar between 2005 and 2006, during the development of research.
The work was presented to the chief executive of Tecpar, Julio C. Felix, in a meeting that was attended by researchers from two institutions that have developed the method, besides the technical director of the institute, William Zemke, and advisors. Felix expressed satisfaction in having more technology Tecpar as a reference. "It is a proven effective method that can simplify and unify the work of identifying the percentage of biodiesel blend in Brazil," he said.
Also discussed was the possibility of developing a portable device for measuring biodiesel blend using this method, and the project was presented to the Technology Incubator of Curitiba (Intec), which is linked to Tecpar.
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