The one and only alternative fuel that can be used directly in any diesel motor, without requiring any type of modification is the Biodiesel. Today, this motors require a fuel that being subjected to the different conditions in wich it operates, remains stable and on the other hand clean when being burned.
Possessing similar properties with the petroleum diesel fuel, both can be mix in any proportion, without generating problems at all.
The biodiesel is an ideal fuel for its low emissions, in the marine areas, national parks and forests and mainly in the big cities like for example United States that uses it in its different mixtures for the public transportation.
The great strength that the Biodiesel represents as a fuel resides in its possibility of being generated starting from cultivations that are abundant in our country as the soya and the sunflower among other, generating an yield for the agricultural sector and consequently a descent of the unemployment.
Ecological benefits:
» It comes from a renewable resource.
» It’s bio-degradable.
» It’s less polluting than the mineral gasoil.
» It reduces particles (smoke) in more than 50% and the emissions of CO2.
» It is sulfurate, benzene and perfuming potentially cancerigenic free.
» It possesses derived products of the residual of its process as glycerine and organic fertilizers.
Economic benefits
» The biodiesel production is encouraged with important incentives and fiscal exemption at national and international level..
» The Kyoto Protocol finances the investment granting “credits of carbon†to those who are able to reduce the emissions of CO2.
» It gives independence to the unavailability and variation of prices of the fossil diesel oil.
» It is less polluting than the mineral gasoil.
» It is a sure fuel in its handling and storage.
» It uses the same facilities that the ones employed for the diesel oil..
» It facilitates its own production in complete cycle (harvests of oleaginous-pressed of oil-biodiesel production) reducing costs and middlemen.
» The commercialization of its by-products (Expeller of soya, sunflower, etc. as origin for Balanced Food for livestock | Glicerol 90% Purity) it constitutes an accessory, profitable business and it diversifies risks.
Mechanical benefits
» It increases the efficiency and it duplicates the durability of the motor, improving its ignition and lubricity.
» High Flash point approx. 130 °C-(Diesel fossil approx. 70 °C).
» It possesses an important lubricant power, reason why it can be considered a preservative to improve the lubricity. Also, the gasoil without sulfur loses lubricant qualities and to replace this flaw, preservatives should be used.
Diagram of Process of the Units of Production of Biodiesel:
