Prospect of biofuels as an alternative transport fuel in Australia

AK Azad, MG Rasul, MMK Khan, SC Sharma… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The prospect of biofuels as a transport alternative fuel in Australia is reviewed and
discussed in this paper. The Australian transport sector is the second largest energy …

Pretreatment and Bioconversion for Valorization of Residues of Non-Edible Oilseeds

E Castro, KO Strætkvern, JM Romero-García, C Martín - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biodiesel production currently follows a first-generation model using edible oils as raw
materials. Such a production model is unsustainable, considering that it is limited by the high …

Experimental study on performance and exhaust emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with Ceiba pentandra biodiesel blends

AS Silitonga, HH Masjuki, TMI Mahlia, HC Ong… - Energy Conversion and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nowadays, production of biodiesel from non-edible feedstock is gaining more attention than
edible oil to replace diesel fuel. Thus, Ceiba pentandra is chosen as a potential biodiesel …

Ultrasonic acoustic-cavitation as a novel and emerging energy efficient technique for oil extraction from kapok seeds

J Senrayan, S Venkatachalam - Innovative Food Science & Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrasound is one of the emerging and novel techniques in oil extraction process. In this
study, the oil was extracted from kapok seed using ultrasonic acoustic cavitation and …

Experimental study on the performance and emission measures of direct injection diesel engine with Kapok methyl ester and its blends

TS Kumar, PS Kumar, K Annamalai - Renewable Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, Kapok methyl ester was derived from Kapok seed oil by the two-step
esterification process. The two-step process consists of acid-catalyzed pretreatment …

Kapok oil methyl esters

U Rashid, G Knothe, R Yunus, RL Evangelista - Biomass and bioenergy, 2014 - Elsevier
The increased need for biodiesel feedstocks has caused various vegetable oils to be
examined for this purpose. In the present work, the methyl esters of kapok (Ceiba pentandra) …

The influence of ceramic-coated piston crown, exhaust gas recirculation, compression ratio and engine load on the performance and emission behavior of kapok oil …

S Bakthavathsalam, RI Gounder… - Environmental Science and …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, the development and usability of kapok oil in diesel engine was intended. With
this purpose, the piston crowns are coated with mullite–lanthanum (ML) ceramic composite …

Effects of methanol and enzyme pretreatment to Ceiba pentandra biodiesel production

B Norjannah, HC Ong, HH Masjuki - Energy Sources, Part A …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Biodiesel production from Ceiba pentandra oil using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase
(Novozym 435) was studied. A drastic change from 20.6% to 78.0% yield for 9: 1 methanol to …

[PDF][PDF] Synthesis of biodiesel from rubber seed oil for internal compression ignition engine

SE Onoji - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017 - core.ac.uk
Biodiesel has been identified as a good complement and plausible replacement of fossil
diesel because of the overwhelming characteristic properties similar to fossil diesel in …