Biodiesel - environmental significant and renewable energy source | Biodizel - ekoloski znacajan i energetski obnovljiv izvor energije
2008
Kosut, Z., Victoriaoil, Sid (Serbia) | Nikolovski, Z., Victoriaoil, Sid (Serbia) | Mitrovic, J., Victoriaoil, Sid (Serbia)
Biodiesel is a liquid biofuel processed from agricultural crops and other renewable feedstock that can be used instead of fossil fuels in internal combustion engines. Biodiesel is obtained from vegetable oils (soybeans, rapeseed, sunflowerseed, palm...), as well as from waste oils and fats with the transesterification process, in the presence of catalyst. Biodiesel can be used alone or mixed in any ratio with fossil diesel, obtained from petroleum oil refining. Use of biodiesel, in comparison to fossil diesel, environmentally speaking ensures the reduction of the green house effect. There are also reductions in the emissions of sulphur oxides, particulates and carbon monoxide. The quantification of these environmental benefits usually is performed via the so called Well-To-Wheel (WTW) approach, i.e. measuring the aggregate net emission over the whole production - consumption chain.
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