Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
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Abstract

SOARES, B. F., TAHAN, C. M. V., PELEGRINI, M. A. et al. Proposição de uso de óleo vegetal in natura e biodiesel de mamona em termelétricas. In Proceedings of the 6. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2006, Campinas (SP, Brazil) [online]. 2006 [cited 18 April 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022006000200034&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

This paper proposes the adoption of renewable fuels on thermal power plants using diesel or high sulfur fuel oil generator sets. The renewable fuels proposed to partially or fully replace the fossil fuels are castor oil in natura or transesterified (biodiesel). Physical and chemical analyses were carried out on laboratory, stablishing the energetical performance of each sample. The results showed that mixtures of biodiesel-fossil fuel offers similar performance when compared to the conventional fuels, allowing its use on thermal power plants in a satisfactory basis.

Keywords : Combustíveis renováveis e não-renováveis; Biodiesel; Óleo Vegetal de Mamona; UTE; OCA.