Abstract
In a world where the energy demand is increasing daily, energy efficiency and renewable energy play a major role. Our research comes to help fighting the biggest problem that our world is facing today, global warming. This study aims to evaluate the energy potential of biofuels obtained from camelina sativa in order to reduce fossil fuel dependence, greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency. Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) is a cruciferous oilseed plant belonging to the Brassicaceae (mustard) family with the common name false flax and gold of pleasure. Since camelina can grow under different conditions without being a competitor of food land, this energetic plant can be used for production of both, firstand second-generation biofuels. In our study we determined the elemental analysis of the subproducts obtained from camelina sativa, through experimental tests, and we built a mathematical model to determine the calorific power and to simulate the burning of the biofuels into a steam generator in order to analyse the energy potential. The results show us that the biofuels obtained from camelina sativa can represent an alternative to fossil fuels and should be considered in the transition to green energy.
Highlights
According with the national energy strategy 2019-2030, with the prospect of the year 2050, beside energy efficiency, promoting energy from renewable sources plays an important role in order to reach the long-term global goal agreed at Paris in 2015, limiting the rise of the global average temperature to 2 ° C, compared to the pre-industrial level
The object of this research is to evaluate the potential of using camelina sativa subproducts as replacements for fossil fuels in small power stations and to identify energy potential and pollutant emission variation when comparing with the ones of conventional fuels
As can be seen from table 2, from calorific power point of view, camelina sativa subproducts can compete with conventional fuels
Summary
According with the national energy strategy 2019-2030, with the prospect of the year 2050, beside energy efficiency, promoting energy from renewable sources plays an important role in order to reach the long-term global goal agreed at Paris in 2015, limiting the rise of the global average temperature to 2 ° C, compared to the pre-industrial level. The total energy production based on biomass and waste presents, in all scenarios, a consistent increase during the analysed period, 2020-2050. The trend of accelerating biomass production after 2030 is notable, by developing modern and efficient technologies on a large scale, especially in the rural area. By 2030 small power stations powered exclusively with biomass, bioliquids, biogas, and waste will be developed, until such plants will have a total installed capacity of 139 MW. The boilers of some of the current thermoelectric power stations will be adapted to allow the burning of a biomass addition [1]
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