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Sustainable Biodiesel
Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 22, 2023
- 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.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Biodiesel: the fundamentals
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The emergence of the biodiesel industry
- 1.3 Biodiesel specifications and standards: history and the state of the art
- 1.4 Biodiesel production yield
- 1.5 Biodiesel chemical production process
- 1.6 Biodiesel production cost
- 1.7 Biodiesel industry facts and figures
- 1.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2. Biodiesel-based biorefineries: hierarchical design and implementation
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Methods for biodiesel production
- 2.3 Biodiesel feedstock
- 2.4 Hierarchical design for biodiesel-based biorefineries
- 2.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Biodiesel feedstocks: location, location, and location
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in Asia
- 3.3 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in Africa
- 3.4 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in Australia
- 3.5 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in Europe
- 3.6 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in North America
- 3.7 Biodiesel feedstocks, techno-economic, and environmental feasibility in South America
- 3.8 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4. Biodiesel production systems: real-world reactor technologies and processes
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Rotating reactors
- 4.3 Simultaneous reaction-separation reactors
- 4.4 Cavitational reactors
- 4.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5. Biodiesel plants operation: prominent parameters, process control, and troubleshooting
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Prominent parameters in biodiesel plant operation
- 5.3 Troubleshooting
- 5.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6. Quality control in biodiesel production plants
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Quality control parameters of feedstocks
- 6.3 Controlling reactor parameters
- 6.4 Process control equipment mounted in process lines
- 6.5 Strategies to increase the quality and quantity of product
- 6.6 Strategies to increase the quality of glycerol
- 6.7 Strategies to reduce wastes
- 6.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7. Biodiesel purification: real-world examples, case studies, and current limitations
- Abstract
- 7.1 Biodiesel purification
- 7.2 Cost analysis of the purification process
- 7.3 New technologies
- 7.4 Conducting remarks and future perspectives for addressing current limitations
- 7.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8. Waste management and valorization in the biodiesel industry
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Wastes originating from feedstock preparation
- 8.3 Wastes originating from biodiesel product purification
- 8.4 Wastes originating from biodiesel production via transesterification
- 8.5 Wastes originating during heterogeneous catalyst reactivation
- 8.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9. Biodiesel plants: real-world designs and fabrications within a real-world case study
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Major steps of industrial operation in biodiesel production
- 9.3 Glycerol refinery
- 9.4 Utilities and logistics
- 9.5 Case study: process improvement
- 9.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10. Biodiesel plants: real-world economics, case studies of plants failure, and way forward
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Biodiesel production on an industrial scale
- 10.3 Commercial production of biodiesel from an economic point of view—case studies
- 10.4 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 11. Biodiesel plants: real-world sustainability analysis using environmental and social life cycle assessment
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Environmental life cycle assessment in biodiesel production on an industrial scale
- 11.3 Social life cycle assessment in biodiesel production on an industrial scale
- 11.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12. Advanced fuel formulations containing biodiesel: real-world applications
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Global biodiesel production and consumption
- 12.3 Global mandates for biodiesel utilization in the transportation sector
- 12.4 Biodiesel utilization in diesel engine
- 12.5 Biodiesel utilization in dual-fuel mode
- 12.6 Biodiesel as fuel for heating
- 12.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13. Policy and regulatory constraints in the biodiesel production and commercialization
- Abstract
- 13.1 Challenges in the commercial production of biodiesel
- 13.2 Biodiesel policy analysis at a global level
- 13.3 Policy aspects in sustainable biodiesel production systems
- 13.4 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 14. Future needs of the biodiesel industry
- Abstract
- 14.1 Biodiesel as an alternative fuel for transportation
- 14.2 Feedstocks for biodiesel production
- 14.3 Biodiesel standards
- 14.4 Improvement of biodiesel properties using additives
- 14.5 Engine test
- 14.6 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- 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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