Camelina oil as fuel to power diesel engines
2007
Wojtkowiak, R. | Bruchwald, P. M. | Glazar, K.,Akademia Rolnicza, Poznan (Poland), Katedra Techniki Lesnej | Frackowiak, P.,Przemyslowy Instytut Maszyn Rolniczych, Poznan (Poland)
The awareness of shrinking fossil fuel resources forces us to search for other, preferably renewable energy sources. This is especially important, as being a member country of the European Union imposes on our country the obligation in driving of transport vehicles to use biofuel, which share to the year 2010 is to be 5.75 percent. As early as the year 2020 biofuel participation is to increase to 20 percent. Under climatic conditions found in Poland the primary source of fuel to power Diesel engines is rape (Brassica napus var. Arvensis). Unfortunately, in Poland the potential to produce from this plant such huge amounts of fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), which so far have been the basic fuel for such engines, is limited. The study presents results of investigations on the application of an oil plant known for many centuries, i.e. camelina (Camelina sativa L.), commonly known also as false flax or madwort, being once a common crop with a very long history of utilization in Poland. It is an oil plant with smaller nutrient and water requirements. Methyl esters of higher fatty acids produced from its oil may be used as biofuel
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