Developmental Trends of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems at TMU Laboratories

• 作者: Barat Ghobadian
• 来源期刊: 可持续生物质能源系统(英文)
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: BIOMASS BIOENERGY Biofuels BIODIESEL FEEDSTOCKS
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（2）
• 页码范围: 11-18
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: F4

摘要

This paper describes a brief review of biodiesel R & D developmental trends at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) bio- energy research laboratories (lab.), Tehran, Iran. The developmental trends at includes potential and feasibility study, cultivation of a sample bioenrgy farm, technology innovation and its scale up (patents) for fuel processing, and finally the fuel application in diesel engines. A national investigation was carried out to find out the possible potential of sustainable feedstock for biodiesel production. The results showed that easily available biodiesel feedstock is waste cooking oil with a maximum potential of 750 mil.lit and an approximately 350 mil.lit. of collectable waste cooking oil. A castor oil plant farm was cultivated to harvest castor plant seeds, extract its oil, produce biodiesel fuel and use it in diesel engines. This led to a series of patent and consequently technology innovation from 7 lit. lab. scale to semi-continuous, semi-industrial scale of 2 ton capacity.