Assessment of the feasilibility of different oil sources to biodiesel production - doi: 10.4025/actascitechnol.v34i2.11259

The use of Biodiesel allows several advantages over diesel fuels such as lower pollutants emission profiles into the atmosphere, hand jobs posts creating, and reduction of imported diesel fuel. Since the program has begun, the soybean oil has been used as mainly raw material to biodiesel production....

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Autores: Pinto, Leandro Ferreira, Silva, Diogo Italo Segalen da, Silva, Fabiano Rosa da, Santos, Vanderley Borges dos, Soletti, João Inácio, Carvalho, Sandra Helena Vieira de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta scientiarum. Technology (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/11259
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciTechnol/article/view/11259
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:biodiesel
feedstock
oilseeds
vegetable oil
Química Orgânica
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Sumario:The use of Biodiesel allows several advantages over diesel fuels such as lower pollutants emission profiles into the atmosphere, hand jobs posts creating, and reduction of imported diesel fuel. Since the program has begun, the soybean oil has been used as mainly raw material to biodiesel production. In fact, this culture is the only that can afford the production needs from biodiesel facilities. However, this oil is a commodity and alternatives fatty materials sources have to be found in order to increase the competitiveness of the process and release the oilseed production to food industry. This work has focused on evaluating the potential use of castor oil, ouricuri, babassu, castanets, macauba and seeds of passion fruit and pinecone as alternative sources to biodiesel production. The results have shown that the evaluation of moisture content of the samples plays an important role before oil content determination and except the seeds of passion fruit, all of them shown oil potential to supply biodiesel production needs.