Biofuels & Gasoline Engines – Bio-gasoline?

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Biofuels & Gasoline Engines – Bio-gasoline?

Biogasoline is a term applied to biomass-based fuels that can be used in fuel engines – mainly bioethanol and biomethanol. These can either be blended with gasoline (and used in unmodified engines), or used as a high proportion of the fuel (in flexi-engines). More inputs for ethanol as gasoline fuel is provided in the Ethanol section of the Biodiesel WWW Encyclopedia.

Did you know? Biodiesel cannot be directly used in gasoline engines

The major fuels that can be considered as biogasoline are:

· Bioethanol: ethanol produced from biomass and/or the biodegradable fraction of waste (see also: What is Bioethanol?, Bio-ethanol – from Dept of Energy, Government of USA (PDF), Bioethanol & Blends Properties)

· Biomethanol: methanol produced from biomass and/or the biodegradable fraction of waste (Methanol from Biomass, Competitive with Gasoline – IAGS, Bio-methanol from Sugar Beet Pulp – PDF, Bio-methanol from Black Liquor - PDF). Biomethanol might become a preferred fuel for fuel cell vehicles because of its high hydrogen content. Biomethanol can be produced from bio-syn-gas, mixtures of H2 and CO derived from biomass. At present, methanol is mostly produced from natural gas (world production 27 mio t/year) with a conversion efficiency of 55%. Biomethanol has in a longer term the economic potential of substituting the methanol derived from natural gas.

· BioETBE (ethyl-tertio-butyl-ether): a fuel produced on the basis of bioethanol (What is ETBE – from Wikipedia). Bio-Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether is a colourless, flammable, oxygenated hydrocarbon. This biofuel is produced by mixing bioethanol (48% in volume) and tertiary butanol (or bioethanol with iso butylene) and reacting them with heat over a catalyst. This biofuel with an octane rating of 112 can be used in existing gasoline engine without any modification shows excellent performance and environmental benefits replacing aromatics and benzene. It is acceptable for direct refinery blending and for common pipeline transport.

· BioMTBE (methyl-tertio-butyl-ether): a fuel produced on the basis of biomethanol. (MTBE from Wikipedia, MTBE Studies). Bio-MTBE is similar to Bio-ETBE, and is obtained by mixing biomethanol and tertiary butanol.

Other References

Some interesting sites:

  • Plant Oils Database – provides resources and links for over 200 different plant oils and related plant extracts
  • BDPedia – The Biodiesel WWW Encyclopedia

Agriculture Directories

BDPedia.com, the Biodiesel WWW Encyclopedia, provides links, provides directory and web links resources for the biofuels, biodiesel. It is intended to be useful for research and information as well as for buyers, sellers, manufacturers, traders, suppliers, producers, exporters and importers. It will make an effort to provide biofuel feedstock, plant oil feedstocks, vegetable oil info and link, details on oilseeds, bio-fuel, bio-diesel, bio-fuels, plant oils production and uses, and biofuels trade & market resources, data, statistics such as price, prices, demand-supply for buyer, seller, manufacturer, trader, supplier, exporter and producer

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