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Impact of biodiesel production on a soybean biorefinery

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  • Barreiros, Thaís
  • Young, André
  • Cavalcante, Raquel
  • Queiroz, Eduardo

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Biodiesel, mainly produced from soybean, is an alternative to replace fossil fuels and to decrease the Brazilian external dependence on petrochemical diesel. However, soybean represents almost 85% of biodiesel production costs and government subsidies are necessary in order to make biodiesel production feasible. A possible solution to this problem is to look to the steps upstream of alkaline transesterification, like oil extraction and refining, where co-products can be isolated, making the soybean processing chain a biorefinery. This work aims to economically evaluate this idea and to show the real impact of biodiesel and the co-products on the biorefinery profitability. Operational and economic parameters were obtained from literature and were adjusted according to time, place, and flowrate. As a result, it is shown that biodiesel production can be profitable, but it should not be seen as the main destination for soybean and provided there is a market for its other fractions.

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  • Barreiros, Thaís & Young, André & Cavalcante, Raquel & Queiroz, Eduardo, 2020. "Impact of biodiesel production on a soybean biorefinery," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 159(C), pages 1066-1083.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:159:y:2020:i:c:p:1066-1083
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.06.064
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