User talk:CorporateM/biofuel

COI contributions

I have a financial COI with Honeywell in that they’ve recruited me to help them navigate through Wikipedia and COI Best Practices. I would like to suggest the following contributions. User:King4057 (COI Disclosure on User Page) 05:43, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Green diesel

I hope to eventually improve the vegetable oil refining article. In the meanwhile I thought I'd offer the same summary I suggested on the algae fuel talk page, which can be implemented wholesale or mixed with what's there.

Main article: Vegetable oil refining

Green diesel is produced through hydrocracking natural oil feedstocks. Hydrocracking is a refinery method that breaks down larger molecules like those found in vegetable oils into shorter carbohydrate chains used in diesel engines. It may also be called renewable diesel or hydrogen-derived renewable diesel (HDRD). Green diesel has the same chemical properties as crude oil. It doesn’t require new engines, pipelines or infrastructure to distribute and use, but hasn’t been made at a cost that is competitive with petroleum. Gasoline versions are also being developed. Green diesel is being developed in the US, Finland, Brazil and Italy, by ConocoPhillips, Neste Oil, Dynamic Fuels, Petrobras, Syntroleum and Honeywell UOP.

I would also like to request we move Green Diesel from first generation to second generation. Green diesel uses camelina, algae and other renewable sources.

Lead

Suggest we move the last paragraph of the lead into a new section called "Production volume." I would also like to contribute some material to the lead to make the distinction between first generation and second generation more clear and properly summarize the article.

First generation biofuels are made from sugars and vegetable oils found in arable crops. They include bioalcohols, biodiesel, vegetable oil, bioethers, biogas, syngas and solid biofuels. First generation biofuels are criticized for competing with food for resources like water and land, for being corrosive to the fuel infrastructure, and for the lack of compatibility with current combustion engines.

Second generation biofuels – dubbed “advanced biofuels” – are made from inedible biomass like agricultural waste, human waste, camelina seeds, Jatropha, or algae. Examples of second generation biofuels include cellulosic ethanol, Algae fuel, biohydrogen, biomethanol, DMF, BioDME, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, green diesel, biohydrogen diesel, mixed alcohols and wood diesel. Some advanced biofuels have a chemical composition identical to traditional petroleum-based gasoline or diesel.