Use of rapeseed straight vegetable oil as fuel produced in small-scale exploitations

This chapter presents a method to produce rapeseed and process it to obtain rapeseed oil and rapeseed cake meal from a small-scale point of view. It also shows how rapeseed oil can be used as fuel in diesel engines for agriculture self-consumption. A production, processing and use-as-fuel model for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Baquero Armans, Grau, Esteban Dalmau, Bernat, Riba Ruiz, Jordi-Roger, Puig, Rita, Rius Carrasco, Antoni
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/71028
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.5772/18183
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/71028
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fuel
Biodiesel fuels
Rape oil
Descripción
Sumario:This chapter presents a method to produce rapeseed and process it to obtain rapeseed oil and rapeseed cake meal from a small-scale point of view. It also shows how rapeseed oil can be used as fuel in diesel engines for agriculture self-consumption. A production, processing and use-as-fuel model for rapeseed oil is also presented, analysing environmentally and economically the use of rapeseed oil as fuel compared to other agricultural production alternatives. The results are evaluated for dry Mediterranean area conditions.