Fuels and Chemicals from Oilseeds

Technology And Policy Options
Herausgeber: Shultz, Eugene B

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the chemical, biological, and energy-related resources available in commercial and wild plant oilseeds; the status of chemical processing efforts and of engine tests using agricultural diesel fuels; and the economic, environmental, and social impacts of oilseed utilization. .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780367164782
• ISBN-10: 0367164787
• Artikelnr.: 60594700

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Renewable Resources: Opportunities and Legislative
Initiatives 2. Novel Marginal-Land Oilseeds: Potential Benefits and Risks
3. Endangered Plant Species: Preservation, Utilization, or Extinction? 4.
Chemicals and Fuels from Commercial Oilseed Crops 5. Chemicals and Fuels
from Wild Plant Oilseeds 6. Seeds of the Chinese Tallow Tree as a Source of
Chemicals and Fuels 7. Polymers from Novel Oilseeds in the Southeastern
United States 8. Sunflower Oil as an Alternative Farm Fuel 9. Testing of
Vegetable Oils in Diesel Engines 10. Seed Oils as Diesel Fuel: Economics of
Centralized and On-Farm Extraction 11. Production Potential for Fuels from
Oilseeds in the United States 12. Oilseeds as Lighting and Cooking Fuel for
Developing Nations 13. Concluding Remarks