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

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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 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.

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

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.

Affiliations and expertise

Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

Abdul-Sattar Nizami

Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a master’s in engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Gaseous Biofuel from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Later, he worked at the University of Toronto, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow on alternative fuels, life cycle studies under the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He served the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as an Assistant Professor and Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, catalytic pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and resource recovery. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy & Environment, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioresource Technology Reports, and Energy Sources Part B.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan

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