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Increased rate of use of fossil fuels have greatly polluted the earth through harmful by-products. Biodiesel is an … Arachis Hypogaea Oil (AHO) is used along with ethanol for biodiesel production. Since the amount of free fatty acid of AHO is … 4.85%, two step transesterification process was adopted for biodiesel production. In the first step, 6:1 ethanol to oil …
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Dieser Arbeitsbericht analysiert die Stoffströme des deutschen Biokraftstoffsektors für das Jahr 2007. Zahlreiche Statistiken wurden ausgewertet, um prozentuale Aussagen treffen zu können wie viel Rohstoffe in die Biokraftstoffproduktion und weitere energetische Verwendungen floss im...
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Conceiving, exploring, and exploiting new ideas are the basis for technological creativity and innovation. By far, the most important step is the conception of a new idea having the potential to be transformed to a successful business solution. Nevertheless, the exploration of a new idea and its...
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within the EU. In a recent working paper, we analyze the GHG emissions savings potential of rapeseed biodiesel. For this … purpose, we ran a life cycle assessment of rapeseed biodiesel using the same basic methodology and background data contained …. In most of the scenarios, rapeseed biodiesel does not reach the GHG emissions saving values using the formula contained …
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The article analyses the Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso do Biodiesel (PNPB), an agro-energy policy with social …'s arrangement in the accomplishment of two goals: the creation of the biodiesel market and the social inclusion in the productive …
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In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices in Germany and study their dynamics over time. We propose an econometric approach to quantify the volatility and correlation risk structure, which has a large impact...
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With this paper, we provide the first quantitative investigation of vertical price transmission in the biodiesel supply … chain in Germany with the focus on the developments during the food crisis and the impact of subsidized US biodiesel exports …. With the strong promotion of the production and use of biodiesel during the first half of the past decade, the German …
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This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies' multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to...
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), we are re-calculating GHG emissions saving potentials for palm oil biodiesel in order to further assess the carbon … data and current publications on palm oil production result in GHG emissions saving potentials of palm oil based biodiesel …. Our results indicate default values for the GHG emission savings potential of palm oil biodiesel not only way beyond the …
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-correction analysis of fuel-food commodity price level co-movement towards inclusion of biodiesel and ethanol prices directly into …
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