Sustainable Biodiesel

Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-12-820361-3
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Sustainable Biodiesel: Real-World Designs, Economics, and Applications offers a unique, integrated approach that combines cutting-edge research results and the day-to-day aspects of biodiesel production at the industrial level. It brings together experienced academics and recognized industry experts to explore the most practical elements of research and discuss the limitations and future needs of the industry. The book critically reviews strategies for implementing biodiesel-based biorefineries, feedstock supply chains, reactor technologies, processes for biodiesel production, and biodiesel combustion, including advanced fuel formulations containing biodiesel. The authors examine biodiesel plants from the point of view of design, operation, quality control, and sustainability, including life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC). Policy and regulatory constraints in biodiesel production and commercialization as well as future trends and needs of the industry are also covered.

This book, as a volume of the "Biomass and Biofuels" series, provides researchers and practitioners in the field of biomass and biofuels with a well-rounded understanding of how the technologies developed in the lab can be deployed at commercial scale in a sustainable and cost-efficient way. This allows biofuels researchers to better develop technology that is fit for upscaling in an industrial setting and complies with sustainability goals. Practicing engineers, on the other hand, find in this volume up-to-date information on available technology, the latest advances, and future trends that will inform their decision-making when planning, implementing, and troubleshooting biodiesel-based bioenergy systems.

Zielgruppe

Engineering researchers and practitioners in the biomass and biofuels field, graduate students and young researchers entering the field.
Energy analysts and consultants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tabatabaei, Meisam

Nizami, Abdul-Sattar

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Biogasanlagen, Energie aus Biomasse
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Brennstoffe, Kraftstoffe, Explosivstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Biodiesel: The fundamentals

2. Biodiesel-based biorefineries: Hierarchy design and implementation
3. Biodiesel feedstocks: Location, location, and location
4. Biodiesel production systems: Real-world reactor technologies and processes
5. Biodiesel plants operation: Prominent parameters, process control, and troubleshooting
6. Quality control in biodiesel production plants
7. Biodiesel purification: Real-world examples, case studies, and current limitations
8. Waste management and valorization in the biodiesel industry
9. Biodiesel plants: Real-world designs and fabrications with real-world case studies

10. Biodiesel plants: Real-world techno-economics, life cycle costing (LCC), case studies of plants failure, and way forward
11. Biodiesel plants: Real-world sustainability (environmental) assessment using LCA, LCIA, etc.
12. Biodiesel plants: Real-world sustainability (exergetic) assessment and social life cycle assessment (SLCA)
13. Advanced fuel formulations containing biodiesel: Techno-economic and policy analysis
14. Future needs of the biodiesel industry: How researchers/academic can help industries

Über Autor(innen)

Nizami, Abdul-Sattar
Abdul-Sattar Nizami has a master's in engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Gaseous Biofuel from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland. Later, he worked at the University of Toronto, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow on alternative fuels, life cycle studies under the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He served the Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies (CEES) of King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as an Assistant Professor and Head of Solid Waste Management Unit, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre (SDSC), Government College University, Pakistan. He has published more than 100 papers on the topics of renewable energy, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, catalytic pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and resource recovery. Dr. Nizami is an Associate Editor in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy & Environment, and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member in Bioresource Technology Reports, and Energy Sources Part B.

Tabatabaei, Meisam
Meisam Tabatabaei is a Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. From 2010 to 2019, he worked closely with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK). He has published over 450 works, including original research papers and reviews in leading journals such as The Lancet, Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences, Nature Food, Trends in Biotechnology, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Henan Agricultural University (China), Visiting Professor & Global Ambassador at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Zhengzhou University (China). He has held top editorial roles in journals with impact factors above 30 and is currently Associate Editor of Critical Reviews in Biotechnology and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. As of June 2025, Prof. Tabatabaei has led and collaborated on 24 research projects with a focus on waste valorisation and biorefineries, sustainable aquaculture, climate change, and food security.