Renewable energy and alternative fuel technologies.

Meisam Tabatabaei,Ilona Sárvári Horváth,Keikhosro Karimi,Rajeev Kumar

doi:10.1155/2015/245935

Abstract

Renewable energy and alternative fuel technologies.

Highlights

Biodiesel is a promising alternative to diesel fuel, as it has a number of advantages including high cetane number, flash point, and inherent lubricity, creates less exhaust emissions, and contains no polluting chemicals like sulfur, as well as being renewable, biodegradable, and compatible to the existing fuel distribution infrastructure
Among the biofuels production processes, biogas process seems to be the easiest to conduct as it does not need sterilization, can be produced in simple reactors at moderate conditions using a natural consortium of microorganisms available in nature such as manure, and does not need a complicated separation and purification process
The substrates used for biogas production are a mixture of different components with different degradation properties

Summary

Introduction

Biodiesel is a promising alternative to diesel fuel, as it has a number of advantages including high cetane number, flash point, and inherent lubricity, creates less exhaust emissions, and contains no polluting chemicals like sulfur, as well as being renewable, biodegradable, and compatible to the existing fuel distribution infrastructure. Meisam Tabatabaei,1,2 Keikhosro Karimi,3 Rajeev Kumar,4 and Ilona Sárvári Horváth5 Biofuels have drawn considerable attention as clean and renewable source of energy.

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