Sustainable Biodiesel Production
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 June 2023) | Viewed by 16731
Special Issue Editor
Interests: alternative fuels; lubricity; engine tribology; combustion; fuel engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue titled “Sustainable Biodiesel Production,” which will be published in the MDPI journal Sustainability. This Special Issue is open to submissions of review and research articles focusing on sustainable biodiesel production techniques for the automotive industry. This Special Issue aims to provide insights into different production methods and techniques used to convert vegetable oil, animal fat, waste biomass materials, etc. into biodiesel. Although fossil fuels mainly fulfill the current world energy demand, fossil fuels are unsustainable and harmful to the environment due to combustion emissions. Therefore, sustainable and safer alternative energy sources are becoming essential as energy demand increases. Biodiesel is the most promising renewable energy source (it is derived from vegetable oils, fats, algae, etc.) to replace fossil fuels in various applications (especially the transport sector) due to its comparable properties with petroleum diesel.
We want to encourage original contributions regarding recent developments and ideas in sustainable biodiesel production and new production technologies for this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: biofuels; ultrasound-assisted transesterification; biodiesel; microwave-assisted transesterification; bioenergy; transesterification of vegetable and animal oils; thermochemical conversion of vegetable oil to biodiesel; heterogeneous catalysts; homogenous catalysts; nanomaterial-based catalysts and other methodologies.
Prof. Dr. Md. Abul Kalam
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiesel production
- alternative fuels
- heterogeneous catalysts
- renewable energy
- biofuels
- thermochemical conversion
- production technologies
- process optimization
- bioenergy
- other technologies