Investigations of Non-Edible Seeds Oils in Comparison with Soybean Benchmark for Production of Biodiesel

Kenneth Okafor,Musa Danjaji,Valerie Nwajeyi,Martin Figura

doi:10.15344/2456-351x/2019/161

Abstract

The desire to reduce green-house gases due to excessive use of fossil fuels for energy production is a major stimulant for alternative clean sources of energy. One of these alternative sources is biodiesel with vegetable oil as a component. However, soybean oil, which is a major food condiment is the major vegetable oil used in the USA. The present study seeks to explore suitable and sustainable sources of oil from non-edible seed plants that are indigenous to the state of South Carolina.

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The desire to reduce green-house gases due to excessive use of fossil fuels for energy production is a major stimulant for alternative clean sources of energy
Research in alternative energy sources received a major boost with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 [1]
It should be noted that the Soybean seed, which is the main source of triglyceride feedstock in the US for biodiesel production, has a yield of only 7%

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Introduction

The desire to reduce green-house gases due to excessive use of fossil fuels for energy production is a major stimulant for alternative clean sources of energy. Research in alternative energy sources received a major boost with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 [1] This Act “authorizes loan guarantees for innovative technologies that avoid green-house gases, which might include advanced nuclear reactor designs, such as pebble bed modular reactors (PBMRs) as well as clean coal and renewable energy”. The Act stipulated the amount of biofuel that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States by the year 2012 in progression. It stipulated 4 billion US gallons (15,000,000 m3) by 2006, 6.1 billion US gallons (23,000,000 m3) by 2009 and 7.5 billion US gallons (28,000,000 m3) by 2012 [2]. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 extended the target to 36 billion US gallons (140,000,000 m3) by the year 2022 [1,2]

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