Cradle to Gate
Identity ID
a2d34e1f-3907-4584-9aba-47eb0e7ac607
Materials
Associated ID
28f3e518-b340-41e3-a6b4-800d84f2b3ef
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Description
Biodiesel is a clean fuel that can replace conventional petroleum diesel. The dataset includes primary raw materials, energy inputs, and atmospheric emissions from the production process; however, infrastructure such as production equipment and facility construction is not included within the system boundary. The life cycle inventory is derived from literature sources and has been optimized based on the best available data for 2022. The production process of biodiesel from vegetable oil involves several steps, including pretreatment, esterification, neutralization, separation and purification, and distillation.
Activity Description
The process flow for producing biodiesel from vegetable oil processing includes pretreatment, esterification reaction, neutralization, separation and purification, distillation, and other steps.
Process Description
Biodiesel refers to fatty acid methyl or ethyl esters produced through transesterification of vegetable oils, animal fats, waste oils, or microbial oils with methanol or ethanol. Biodiesel is a clean fuel that can replace conventional petroleum diesel.
Time period
2020
2026
Geography
China
Macroeconomic value
Business-as-Usual
Data validation
Yes
Technology
Current Technology
Technology comment
The process flow for producing biodiesel from vegetable oil processing includes pretreatment, esterification reaction, neutralization, separation and purification, distillation, and other steps.