Abstract
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.
Highlights
The R & D activities on biodiesel in Iran in general, and at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) in particular, is considered to be at its infantry stage compared to similar research works carried out throughout the world
This paper describes a brief review of biodiesel R & D developmental trends at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) bioenergy research laboratories, Tehran, Iran
The results showed that 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
Summary
The R & D activities on biodiesel in Iran in general, and at TMU in particular, is considered to be at its infantry stage compared to similar research works carried out throughout the world. Biofuel laboratories were established followed by the development of a biomass and bioenergy strategic plan. These laboratories are today well known as TMU research and development bioenegy laboratories at Tarbiat Modres University, the college of agriculture campus [2]. The biodiesel R & D activity was part of the biomass and bioenergy R & D strategic plan In this case, a number of research works were carried out [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15] or going on [16,17,18,19,20,21] in the form of feasibility studies, M.Sc. dissertations and Ph.D. thesis. The biodiesel R & D activities resulted in a few number of research patents [83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96]
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