Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
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MOURAD, Anna Lúcia. Principais culturas para obtenção de óleos vegetais combustíveis no Brasil. In Anales del 6. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2006, Campinas (SP, Brasil) [online]. 2006 [citado 18 Abril 2024]. Disponible en: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022006000200029&lng=es&nrm=iso> .

This paper tries to identify how the National Program of Production and Useof Biodiesel may unfold itself in different geographical areas starting from the specific characteristics for each cultivation and volume production of each plant at present. By combining the production of palm, peanut, corn, soy beans, coconut, cotton, castor beans, sunflower and canola, of each geographical area, with the average oil yield as compared with the production of 2004, it has been calculated that the potential of oil production from areas in the South (32,9%) and Middle west (40,8%), having a high per capita income, are much higher than the areas the North (3,4%) and Northeast (10,1%), mainly due to the high soy bean and corn production. Considering the participation of all these oleaginous raw materials, it has been considered that it would be necessary to increase about 5% of the actual production of these plants for a later transformation in fuel to supply the biodiesel demand. This modest growth estimate requires caution on the part of the farmers and oil crushers and converters for they must project their investments correctly, so that their production can be absorbed by the market. The oil yield per hectare and the land use per biofuel ton are indicators which have a great importance to be considered in the National Program to evaluate aspects of economic, social and environmental feasibility.

Palabras llave : óleos vegetais combustíveis; mamona; soja; girassol; milho; dendê; amendoim; canola; côco-da-baía.