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ReviewCritical reviews in toxicology2012

Potential hazards associated with combustion of bio-derived versus petroleum-derived diesel fuel.

Jürgen Bünger, Jürgen Krahl, Olaf Schröder, Lasse Schmidt, Götz A Westphal

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Review in Critical reviews in toxicology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jürgen BüngerInstitute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany. buenger@ipa-dguv.de
Jürgen Krahl
Olaf Schröder
Lasse Schmidt
Götz A Westphal

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fuels from renewable resources have gained worldwide interest due to limited fossil oil sources and the possible reduction of atmospheric greenhouse gas. One of these fuels is so called biodiesel produced from vegetable oil by transesterification into fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). To get a first insight into changes of health hazards from diesel engine emissions (DEE) by use of biodiesel scientific studies were reviewed which compared the combustion of FAME with common diesel fuel (DF) for legally regulated and non-regulated emissions as well as for toxic effects. A total number of 62 publications on chemical analyses of DEE and 18 toxicological in vitro studies were identified meeting the criteria. In addition, a very small number of human studies and animal experiments were available. In most studies, combustion of biodiesel reduces legally regulated emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter. Nitrogen oxides are regularly increased. Among the non-regulated emissions aldehydes are increased, while polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are lowered. Most biological in vitro assays show a stronger cytotoxicity of biodiesel exhaust and the animal experiments reveal stronger irritant effects. Both findings are possibly caused by the higher content of nitrogen oxides and aldehydes in biodiesel exhaust. The lower content of PAH is reflected by a weaker mutagenicity compared to DF exhaust. However, recent studies show a very low mutagenicity of DF exhaust as well, probably caused by elimination of sulfur in present DF qualities and the use of new technology diesel engines. Combustion of vegetable oil (VO) in common diesel engines causes a strongly enhanced mutagenicity of the exhaust despite nearly unchanged regulated emissions. The newly developed fuel "hydrotreated vegetable oil" (HVO) seems to be promising. HVO has physical and chemical advantages compared to FAME. Preliminary results show lower regulated and non-regulated emissions and a decreased mutagenicity.

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Air PollutantsAnimalsBiofuelsDNA DamageGasolineHumansHydrocarbonsModels, AnimalMutagensNitrogen OxidesParticulate MatterPetroleumPlant OilsPolycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsRisk AssessmentVehicle EmissionsAir PollutantsBiofuelsGasolineHydrocarbonsMutagensNitrogen OxidesParticulate MatterPetroleumPlant OilsPolycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsVehicle Emissions

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