Plant Biomass Conversion to Vehicle Liquid Fuel as a Path to Sustainability

Aleksandr Ketov (), Natalia Sliusar, Anna Tsybina, Iurii Ketov, Sergei Chudinov, Marina Krasnovskikh and Vladimir Bosnic
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Aleksandr Ketov: Department of Environmental Protection, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Prof. Pozdeev Str. 14, 614990 Perm, Russia
Natalia Sliusar: Department of Environmental Protection, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Prof. Pozdeev Str. 14, 614990 Perm, Russia
Anna Tsybina: Department of Environmental Protection, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Prof. Pozdeev Str. 14, 614990 Perm, Russia
Iurii Ketov: Department of Environmental Protection, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Prof. Pozdeev Str. 14, 614990 Perm, Russia
Sergei Chudinov: Bumatica Ltd., Bratskaya Str. 139, 614089 Perm, Russia
Marina Krasnovskikh: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Technology and Technosphere Safety, Perm State National Research University, Bukireva Str. 15, 614068 Perm, Russia
Vladimir Bosnic: Research Center RTPlast LLC, Nizhnyaya Pervomayskaya Str. 64, 105203 Moscow, Russia

Resources, 2022, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-11

Abstract: Biofuel such as linseed oil has an energy potential of 48.8 MJ/kg, which is much lower than fossil diesel fuel 57.14 MJ/kg. Existing biofuels need to increase the energy potential for use in traditional engines. Moreover, biofuel production demands cheap feedstock, for example, sawdust. The present paper shows that the technology to synthesize high-energy liquid vehicle fuels with a gross calorific value up to 53.6 MJ/kg from renewable sources of plant origin is possible. Slow pyrolysis was used to produce high-energy biofuel from sawdust and linseed oil. The proposed approach will allow not only to preserve the existing high-tech energy sources of high unit capacity based on the combustion of liquid fuels, but also to make the transition to reducing the carbon footprint and, in the future, to carbon neutrality by replacing fossil carbon of liquid hydrocarbon fuels with the carbon produced from biomass.

Keywords: renewable resource; energy; sustainability; carbon footprint; slow pyrolysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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