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Biodiesel and Green Diesel Fuels: A Techno-Economic Analysis

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Green Diesel: An Alternative to Biodiesel and Petrodiesel

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Climate change represents a major challenge for our world’s equilibrium and society. Therefore, we need to implement an adaptive energy matrix where fuels like fossil diesel are used wisely in coming years, but where sustainable and renewable biofuels increase its contribution to the transport sector or in electric power generation. Among those renewable biofuels, biodiesel and green diesel may play significant roles through circular economy of biomass, with local and regional production into a biorefinery with minima emissions and waste streams. The assessment of a particular scientific development may be approached by the techno-economic analysis (TEA) of the production process, which may serve to identify scientific and technological limitations and challenges that impact economic and financial parameters. In this work, we present and discuss the advantages and challenges of blending biodiesel or green diesel with fossil diesel, the technological, economic and financial issues that must be approached by TEA and its constrains, and the comparison and discussion of several TEA works dealing with biodiesel and green diesel production. Even if green diesel is just recently available with respect to biodiesel, it represents an important opportunity in co-processing plant oils into a petroleum refinery, access to high volume capacity plants and distribution, which may help to decarbonize the petroleum fuel sector.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from British Council, Newton Fund Impact Scheme through project NFIS-540821111 as well as Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo co-financing through project Y.62001 “A decision support platform for bioenergy technology deployment and policymaking in Mexico”.

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Aburto, J., Amezcua-Allieri, M.A. (2022). Biodiesel and Green Diesel Fuels: A Techno-Economic Analysis. In: Aslam, M., Shivaji Maktedar, S., Sarma, A.K. (eds) Green Diesel: An Alternative to Biodiesel and Petrodiesel. Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2235-0_11

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