Improvements needed for the biodiesel standard EN 14214

The final report of BIOSCOPES (Biodiesel: Improvement on Standards, Co-ordination of Producers & Ethanol Studies).

BISCOPES focused on the revision of available test methods for biodiesel and the development of a new method for the determination of polyunsaturated fatty acid methyl esters and for scientific studies on the connection between oxidation stability and other cumulative parameters of biodiesel. Work on the improvement of the test method was initiated by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN, Comité Européen de Normalisation). The advances in test methodology were made over two years by the Biodiesel Quality Management Work Group (AGQM) together with partners from Italy, France, Austria and Germany.