best feedstock oil for biodiesel production?
an Anonymous Greaser -
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 20:58
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Hi! Am wondering what's the best oil for biodiesel production? Irrespective of price and/or availability (let's pretend I'm King of the World for a day), which oils produce the best caliber finished product??
Thanks in advance! -- S. Sorukas
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I'm a professional in the UK (British) biodiesel industry.
Your question is a good one, but can't be answered simply.
I would tell you to become familar with EN 14214, and ASTM D 6751 - biodiesel standards inside out.
In doing so you will find that various OIL (triglyceride) feeds can produce different properties in the final B100 (Biodiesel) due to example:
Saturated/Unsaturated Methyl ester component variation....
e.g. Palmitic, Stearic, Oleic,Linolenic acid methyl ester etc etc
This will affect - CFPPs, MPs, Iodine Values, Densities, Cetane numbers and many others.
I believe in order to balance COST and fuel properties - WVO can be blended, pretreated etc with other oils to obtain the correct balancing act at the end.
In your question - it depends on the technology utilsed! - such as acid-pretreatment/base catalysis can make high yield B100 from WVO... which can have better Cetane than say
virgin Rape/Soy derived B100....
It's such a huge area.... I'm only showing you a little bit of it.
Hope this keeps you interested.
M in the UK
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