Professional paper

Production of biodiesel from oil seed rape in Croatia

Neven Voća ; Agronomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zavod za poljoprivrednu tehnologiju, skladištenje i transport

Abstract

Because of favourable climatic conditions Croatia has significant potential in biodiesel production from oilseed rape. Expected economic, social and ecological benefits from biodiesel production on the national level, need to be attained through creation of production of this fuel from domestic raw material. Increasingly demanding ecological standards as well as the obligation to reduce greenhouse effect gas emission have given a powerful boost to production and usage of biodiesel in European countries. Special emphasis in the process of biodiesel production, with the aim of attaining greater profit, is given to the usage of all by-products e.g. cake, glycerol and straw. If biodiesel and all by-products are produced and used in agricultural production systems, then energy independence of production is achieved, certainty of energy source supplying, independence on raw material market and possibility of bio-organic food production.

Keywords

biodiesel; agricultural production; oilseed rape

Hrčak ID:

164048

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/164048

Publication date:

25.7.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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