Jatropha curcas

Talking about biodiesel, I remember Jatropha curcas plant. This plant claimed to be prospective plant to produce biodiesel. After some promotion indeed this plant can be a good alternative for palm oil. Palm oil is edible but Jatropha oil is non-edible oil so it can't be eaten. Is it? well I've heard there are non toxic Jatropha. They said Jatropha can live in arid/semi arid land where there is no...

Bioethanol

Bioethanol, what is bioethanol? is it the same with ethanol? is it an alcohol? Well from what i've read is bioethanol is ethanol obtained from fermentation of material containing starch or sugar such as cassava and molasses. This "Plant Oil" or PO is used to substitute gasoline. Ethanol that can be used as PO is pure, free of water, alcohol (anhydrous alcohol) with 99.5% rate. This fuel then called fuel grade ethanol (FGE). The mixture of FGE and gasoline is called gasohol in my country.But I have...

Biodiesel

Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-based diesel fuel consisting of short chain alkyl (methyl or ethyl) esters, made by transesterification of vegetable oil or animal fat (tallow), which can be used (alone, or blended with conventional petrodiesel) in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles[1].This liquid fuel, diesel like, is prospective to be developed. Biodiesel also has advantages compared to petroleum-based diesel:Environmentally friendly because has better emission than petrodiesel (free sulphur,...

Bioenergy conversion

With the development of the science, biomass conversion also transformed to more modern type. Now we know two type of biomass, traditional and modern. Traditional biomass like we all know is firewood while the modern biomasses are bioethanol, biodiesel, pure plant oil (PPO), straight vegetable oil (SVO), burning oil, and biogas. It is called modern biomass because to get it we need to do processing...

Bioenergy

Bioenergy according to the expert is renewable energy derived from biological sources while other expert said that bioenergy is stored energy from the sun contained in materials such as plant matter and animal waste, known as biomass. From description above it is clear that bioenergy and biomass is different. From wikipedia it is said that biomass is any organic material which has stored sunlight in the form of chemical energy. So you can that biomass is the fuel you used and bioenergy is the energy...