Term 11: Oil Density
The term oil density is the volumetric density of the
unrefined oil. This term converts the mass of oil produced
to a volume measurement. Because algal oil is a relatively
new commodity, not much data exist for its physical
properties. Therefore, the density of soybean oil, which is
similar to algal oil, was used. The density of soybean oil
was taken to be 918 Kg∙m−3
, with a range of 910–
925 Kg∙m−3 [5] for both the theoretical and best cases.