
Sustainable Biodiesel
Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdul-Sattar Nizami
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 3 6 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 4 8 5 - 6
Sustainable Biodiesel: Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications offers a unique, integrated approach that combines cutting-edge research results and the day-to-day aspects o… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSustainable Biodiesel: Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications offers a unique, integrated approach that combines cutting-edge research results and the day-to-day aspects of biodiesel production at the industrial level. It brings together experienced academics and recognized industry experts to explore the most practical elements of research and discuss the limitations and future needs of the industry. The book critically reviews strategies for implementing biodiesel-based biorefineries, feedstock supply chains, reactor technologies, processes for biodiesel production, and biodiesel combustion, including advanced fuel formulations containing biodiesel. The authors examine biodiesel plants from the point of view of design, operation, quality control, and sustainability, including life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC). Policy and regulatory constraints in biodiesel production and commercialization as well as future trends and needs of the industry are also covered.
This book, as a volume of the "Biomass and Biofuels" series, provides researchers and practitioners in the field of biomass and biofuels with a well-rounded understanding of how the technologies developed in the lab can be deployed at commercial scale in a sustainable and cost-efficient way. This allows biofuels researchers to better develop technology that is fit for upscaling in an industrial setting and complies with sustainability goals. Practicing engineers, on the other hand, find in this volume up-to-date information on available technology, the latest advances, and future trends that will inform their decision-making when planning, implementing, and troubleshooting biodiesel-based bioenergy systems.
- Sheds light on the real-world aspects of biodiesel production while also covering the cutting-edge research results in the field
- Integrates design, economics, and sustainability aspects, minimizing the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical expertise, as well as between technical aspects and environmental and economic performances
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Includes realistic examples and case studies of applications of state-of-the-methodologies for life cycle assessment, life cycle impact assessment, and life cycle costing
Energy analysts and consultants.
2. Biodiesel-based biorefineries: Hierarchy design and implementation
3. Biodiesel feedstocks: Location, location, and location
4. Biodiesel production systems: Real-world reactor technologies and processes
5. Biodiesel plants operation: Prominent parameters, process control, and troubleshooting
6. Quality control in biodiesel production plants
7. Biodiesel purification: Real-world examples, case studies, and current limitations
8. Waste management and valorization in the biodiesel industry
9. Biodiesel plants: Real-world designs and fabrications with real-world case studies
10. Biodiesel plants: Real-world techno-economics, life cycle costing (LCC), case studies of plants failure, and way forward
11. Biodiesel plants: Real-world sustainability (environmental) assessment using LCA, LCIA, etc.
12. Biodiesel plants: Real-world sustainability (exergetic) assessment and social life cycle assessment (SLCA)
13. Advanced fuel formulations containing biodiesel: Techno-economic and policy analysis
14. Future needs of the biodiesel industry: How researchers/academic can help industries
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 22, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 512
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128203613
- eBook ISBN: 9780128204856
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Meisam Tabatabaei
Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Over the last decade, Meisam has worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 400 publications, including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The LANCET, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He is currently also a Visiting Professor at the Henan Agricultural University, China, and University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a member of the editorial board for the journals Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Biofuel Research Journal, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, Data in Brief, and Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects. Prof. Tabatabaei is the Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and Senior Editor of e-Prime.
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