Biodiesel production from waste cooking oil. Copyright ® Marcin Banas Processing Lines Biodiesel production from waste cooking oil. Copyright ® Marcin Banas
What is biodiesel? Biodiesel is diesel fuel made of used cooking oil or oil from seed.
How’s It Made? Oil and Methanol make Diesel and Glycerin. Used Cooking Oil is Free. Methanol is fairly cheap. Both Diesel and Glycerin have value as commodities.
Transesterification 1 molecule triglyceride 3 molecules methanol 3 molecules methyl ester 1 molecule glycerine 100 kg vegetable oil 11 kg Methanol 100 kg methyl ester 11 kg glycerine
Transesterification
Amateurs’ Page Batch homebrewThanks to “Journey to Forever” and Mike Pelley Melted fat After acid esterification Methanol and Sulfuric acid stage
Second stage MeOH and NaOH addition Glycerol layer settles out More glycerol settles out First wash
After first wash After third wash
Low scale production flowsheet
Low scale refinery
Large scale production flowsheet
Refinery
Seed preparation
Pressing
Refining
Oleochemistry
Production costs
Efficiency World consumption: 3.5 Gt / year 0.71 biodiesel ton per hectare 50 mln km^2 Some areas [mln km^2]: Europe – 10.5 China – 9.5 USA – 9.6 Russia – 17 World – 510 Land surface
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