Biodiesel: Feedstocks and Processing Technologies

✍ Scribed by Margarita Stoytcheva (ed.), Gisela Montero (ed.)

• Publisher: InTech
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 469
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book "Biodiesel: Feedstocks and Processing Technologies" is intended to provide a professional look on the recent achievements and emerging trends in biodiesel production. It includes 22 chapters, organized in two sections. The first book section: "Feedstocks for Biodiesel Production" covers issues associated with the utilization of cost effective non-edible raw materials and wastes, and the development of biomass feedstock with physical and chemical properties that facilitate it processing to biodiesel. These include Brassicaceae spp., cooking oils, animal fat wastes, oleaginous fungi, and algae. The second book section: "Biodiesel Production Methods" is devoted to the advanced techniques for biodiesel synthesis: supercritical transesterification, microwaves, radio frequency and ultrasound techniques, reactive distillation, and optimized transesterification processes making use of solid catalysts and immobilized enzymes. The adequate and up-to-date information provided in this book should be of interest for research scientist, students, and technologists, involved in biodiesel production.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Biodiesel: Feedstocks and Processing Technologies......Page 2
©......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Part 1 Feedstocks for Biodiesel Production......Page 12
1 Non Edible Oils: Raw Materials for Sustainable Biodiesel......Page 14
2 Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil......Page 34
3 Animal Fat Wastes for Biodiesel Production......Page 56
4 Getting Lipids for Biodiesel Production from Oleaginous Fungi......Page 82
5 Microbial Biodiesel Production - Oil Feedstocks Produced from Microbial Cell Cultivations......Page 104
6 Algal Biomass and Biodiesel Production......Page 122
7 Microalgae as Feedstocks for Biodiesel Production......Page 144
8 Eco-Physiological Barriers and Technological Advances for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae......Page 172
9 Advantages and Challenges of Microalgae as a Source of Oil for Biodiesel......Page 188
10 An Integrated Waste-Free Biomass Utilization System for an Increased Productivity of Biofuel and Bioenergy......Page 212
Part 2 Biodiesel Production Methods......Page 238
11 Production of Biodiesel via In-Situ Supercritical Methanol Transesterification......Page 240
12 Transesterification in Supercritical Conditions......Page 258
13 Alternative Methods for Fatty Acid Alkyl-Esters Production: Microwaves, Radio-Frequency and Ultrasound......Page 280
14 Transesterification by Reactive Distillation for Synthesis and Characterization of Biodiesel......Page 300
15 Gas-Liquid Process, Thermodynamic Characteristics (19 Blends), Efficiency & Environmental Impacts, SEM Particulate Matter Analysis and On-Road Bus Trial of a Proven NOx Less Biodiesel......Page 328
16 Biodiesel Production with Solid Catalysts......Page 350
17 Heterogeneous Catalysts Based on H3PW12O40 Heteropolyacid for Free Fatty Acids Esterification......Page 370
18 An Alternative Eco-Friendly Avenue for Castor Oil Biodiesel: Use of Solid Supported Acidic Salt Catalyst......Page 390
19 The Immobilized Lipases in Biodiesel Production......Page 408
20 Progress in Vegetable Oils Enzymatic Transesterification to Biodiesel - Case Study......Page 422
21 Adsorption in Biodiesel Refining - A Review......Page 438

✦ Subjects

Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Биотопливо, биоэнергетика;