Determination of the Amount of Land Area Required for Alternative Second-generation Feedstock to Replace First-generation Feedstock in Biodiesel Production in Turkey

Abstract

In this study, the amount of land area required for the replacement of sunflower and cottonseed plants, which are used as the first-generation feedstock source in the biodiesel production sector, which has the highest growing area as an oil plant in our country, with the second-generation vegetable oil feedstock was calculated. Safflower and rapeseed plants were selected as the second-generation vegetable oil feedstocks source. In this way, the required amount of land area and the amount of land saved to provide the same total potential biodiesel volume using second-generation feedstocks in the production sector has been determined. With the increase in the use of second-generation feedstock in biodiesel production, it is expected that land area use will be saved, our oil imports will decrease, and the pressure on the food sector will alleviation.

Keywords

• Plantation area
• biofuels
• biodiesel
• vegetable oil feedstocks
• sustainability

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