Analysis of Biological Degradation and Life Cycle Indicators of Mineral Diesel Fuel Mixtures, Containing 10% Biodiesel, Obtained by Simultaneous Oil Extraction and Transesterification

This article provides data on the environmental properties of biofuels obtained by the simultaneous extraction of oil from spoiled rapeseed and transesterification, with the addition of mineral diesel to the reaction mixture. The resulting reaction product contained 10% biodiesel: fatty acid methyl, ethyl, or butyl esters in mixtures with mineral diesel. The addition of biodiesel has been found to increase the rate of biodegradation of fuels. Such fuels are classified as partially biodegradable, according to the OECD classification. Life cycle analysis showed that the mixtures of biodiesel and mineral diesel have lower negative environmental impacts, compared to pure mineral diesel. The values of indicators such as abiotic depletion, acidification, global warming, ozone depletion, and human toxicity for these mixtures were 40–58% lower compared to the corresponding values for mineral diesel.

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Evaluation of biodegradability and stability of biodiesel fuel and its mixtures

Žemės ūkio mokslai ◽

10.6001/zemesukiomokslai.v24i3.3556 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Irina Kazanceva ◽

Eglė Sendžikienė ◽

Ieva Sendžikaitė

Keyword(s):

Fatty Acid ◽

Rapeseed Oil ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽

Methyl Esters ◽

Acid Number ◽

Biodiesel Fuel ◽

Biological Degradation ◽

Butyl Esters ◽

Environmental Properties ◽

Fuel Mixtures

Global warming has forced humanity to care for greenhouse gas emission reductions, at the same time the production and use of biofuels. One of the positive environmental properties of biofuels is fast biological degradation. Biological degradability of pure rapeseed oil fatty acid butyl esters (RBE) within 28 days is 70% and such product meets the requirements for biofuel. During the same period, only 26% of mineral diesel fuel (D) is decomposed. Multi-component fuel containing up to 30% biofuel is less biodegradable and specified as a partially biodegradable material. The peroxide and acid number of pure biodiesel is growing rapidly when aging compared to that of mineral diesel and multicomponent fuel mixtures. The acid number of pure rapeseed oil fatty acid methyl esters (RME) was higher than the standard requirements after 3 weeks of storage. The acid number of mixtures containing 15% RME (RME15B15D70) and RBE (RBE15B15D70 and RBE25B25D50) was less than 0.5 mg KOH/g–1 after 8 weeks of storage. Multi-component fuel is more resistant to oxidation than pure biodiesel fuel.

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Life Cycle Analysis of Rapeseed Oil Butyl Esters Produced from Waste and Pure Rapeseed Oil

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies ◽

10.15244/pjoes/75822 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 829-837

Author(s):

Egle Sendzikiene ◽

Violeta Makareviciene ◽

Irina Kazanceva

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Life Cycle Analysis ◽

Rapeseed Oil ◽

Butyl Esters

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Life Cycle Assessment of Mortars Produced Partially Replacing Cement by Treated Mining Residues

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11177947 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (17) ◽

pp. 7947

Author(s):

Joana Almeida ◽

Paulina Faria ◽

Alexandra Branco Ribeiro ◽

António Santos Silva

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Environmental Impacts ◽

Ozone Depletion ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Management Options ◽

Photochemical Ozone ◽

Mining Residues ◽

Abiotic Depletion

The use of secondary mining resources to replace conventional constituents in mortars production has proved the effectiveness to preserve the quality of mechanical, physical, and chemical properties. However, minimal research has been performed to quantify the environmental impacts of mortars with mining residues. In the present work, a life cycle assessment of 10 mortars was carried out. A reference mortar (100% of cement binder) and mortars with cement substitutions in 10, 25, and 50% by raw, electrodialytic treated, and electrodialytic plus thermal treated mining residues were analysed. The impacts were studied in six environmental categories: (1) abiotic depletion; (2) global warming; (3) ozone depletion; (4) photochemical ozone creation; (5) acidification; and (6) eutrophication potentials. The results demonstrated that mortars formulated with raw mining residues may decrease the environmental impacts, namely in global warming potential (55.1 kg CO2 eq./t modified mortar). Considering the treatments applied to mining residues, the major mitigations were reported in photochemical ozone creation (−99%), ozone depletion (−76 to −98%), and acidification potential (−90 to −94%), mainly due to the disposal impacts avoided in comparison to the reference mortar. Analysing all mortars’ constituents and their management options, products with electrodialytic treated mining residues showed higher influence in ozone depletion (18 to 52%). Coupling a thermal procedure, mining residues contributed for 99% of the abiotic depletion potential of mortars.

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Estimation of Recoverable Household Waste Cooking Oil and Life Cycle Analysis of Biodiesel Fuel Production

Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Japan ◽

10.3370/lca.4.318 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 318-323 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hirotsugu KAMAHARA ◽

Shun YAMAGUCHI ◽

Ryuichi TACHIBANA ◽

Naohiro GOTO ◽

Koichi FUJIE

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Life Cycle Analysis ◽

Waste Cooking Oil ◽

Household Waste ◽

Biodiesel Fuel ◽

Fuel Production ◽

Cooking Oil

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DEVELOPMENT OF DETERGENT RECIPE WITH IMPROVED ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS

Environmental Problems ◽

10.23939/ep2020.04.223 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 223-229

Author(s):

Yuliia Slyva ◽

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Oleksiy Verenikin ◽

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Synthetic Detergent ◽

General Scheme ◽

Practical Experience ◽

Environmental Characteristics ◽

Environmental Standard ◽

Ecological Characteristics ◽

Environmental Criteria ◽

Environmental Properties

The research on the development of an innovative formula of a synthetic detergent with improved environmental properties, which meet the environmental standard of SOU OEM 08.002.12.065:2016 "Detergents and cleaning products. Environmental criteria for life cycle assessment" is carried out. The accumulated theoretical and practical experience is generalized, the general scheme of designing and development of new goods taking into account features of detergents with the improved ecological characteristics is created.

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