Abstract
Our agricultural system is struggling to respond to increasing demands for food and renewable energy. We need to prioritize our production of local biofuel feedstocks by going through energy diversification, whose raw material is based on agriculture. The need for biofuels, which are among the renewable energy sources in our country, is increasing day by day, especially in terms of energy security and sustainability. Sunflower, cotton, safflower, and rapeseed are among the vegetable oil feedstock sources of biodiesel production, an important place among biofuels in our country. The most abundant source of oil raw material belongs to sunflower. Is this year 2019 sowing season in our country, 2 100 000 tons of sunflower were harvested with a yield of 27 937 kg per hectare during the planting works carried out on 751 693 hectares of land. This study aimed to determine the potential biodiesel volume of the sunflower plant according to the data of 2019. As a result of the calculations, this oilseed plant's potential biodiesel production volume in our country has been determined as 582 643 166 liters. For the biodiesel sector to produce uninterruptedly, the production studies of second-generation biodiesel raw materials, which are not used in the food sector, are compatible with the conditions of our country, especially in low water demand, and can be grown quickly in marginal areas.
Highlights
Global warming and the resulting climate change primarily affect agriculture, livestock and clean water resources
It is an agricultural country that has signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on September 30, 2015, and prepared the Greenhouse Gas Inventory, which is a party to the Kyoto Protocol, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 21% until 2030, and carries out the studies of the National Climate Change Action Plan
Statistics for 2020 have shown that there is an excessive dependence on fossil fuels to meet energy demands all over the world
Summary
Global warming and the resulting climate change primarily affect agriculture, livestock and clean water resources. According to the World Energy Council Turkey (2020) report, countries like our country, which do not have rich fossil-based resources and have a large foreign dependency on energy, should focus on the production of local biofuel raw materials by going the way of energy diversification in today's conditions where environmental problems are increasing exponentially day by day. This will be an important driving force for the country's economy. 13.5% canola, 12.9% cottonseed, 10.9% peanut, 10.3%
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