BIODIESEL FUELS BASED ON VEGETABLE OILS: ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTION IN THE OPERATION OF VEHICLES
Keywords:
biodiesel, rapeseed oil, hemp oil, soybean oil, waste cooking oil, methyl esters, ethyl esters, operational properties, lubricating properties.Abstract
The worldwide increasing demand for energy prompts scientists to focusing their research fields at developing sustainable processes for using renewable source of energy. Recently, the depletion of fossil reservoirs become really dramatic for European Countries due to geo-political crises and the high concern for global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the combustion of
fossil fuels, render the use of waste biomass as energy feedstock very interesting from an economic and environmental point of view. Although the EU banned the production of petrol and diesel automotives by 2035, the employing of biodiesel from waste biomass seems a very interesting alternative, solving problems connected to both fossil depletion and waste disposal.
The purpose of this article is to study the operational and lubricating properties of methyl esters of rapeseed oil, methyl esters of hemp oil, isopropyl esters of rapeseed oil.
