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Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil To Biodiesel: Life Cycle Assessment
Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil To Biodiesel: Life Cycle Assessment
Conversion of Waste Cooking Oil To Biodiesel: Life Cycle Assessment
Raw Material
Production Process
Use
End of Life Phase
Importance of Life Cycle Analysis
• The environmental impact generated from all
the processes is analyzed, not only the
manufacture or end use process
• Gain overall understanding
about a product’s entire
environmental impact
Life Cycle of Petroleum Diesel
Shipping
with Emissions
Ocean
Tanker
• Transesterification
Material (Adapted from the laboratory experiment)
Energy Use
Electricity 0.0502 kWh
Natural Gas 0.02581 m3
Applications developed for the life cycle analysis
• Stages:
o Crude Oil Drilling in Middle East
o Transportation to Singapore with Ocean Tankers
o Refinery
o Transportation to Retail Stations
o End Use
• Sub-processes:
o Diesel, combusted in industrial boiler
o Electricity, at grid
o Gasoline, combusted in equipment
o Natural gas, combusted in industrial boiler
o Residual fuel oil, combusted in industrial boiler
All the final results are based on the same
comparison basis: 1 MJ of energy that can be derived
from the fuel
CO2 emission comparison (95.27 % reduction)
1. End Use
2. Refinery
3. Transportation to
Singapore: 8000 km
4. Drilling
1. Energy Use
During Production
2. Methanol and
KOH
Only consider about production and transportation stages.
58.96% Reduction
PM emission comparison (46.95% reduction)
44.60% Reduction
Used to measure the life cycle energy input (except end use phase)
40.57 % reduction
Biodiesel’s (from waste
cooking oil) life cycle
emission of carbon dioxide
and particulate matter is
much lower than that from
diesel
Objectives
System Boundaries
Analysis Model
Conclusion