Clean Combustion Research Center<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cAs one of the world\u2019s leading teams in combustion research and innovation, we are always looking into new fuels and additives that help maximize engine efficiency and minimize environmental pollution,\u201d says research scientist Binod Giri.<\/p>\n
Concern over diminishing fossil fuel reserves and the environmental damage caused by current fuel technologies is driving interest in more sustainable and cleaner fuels. One major avenue to reduce global dependence on fossil fuels is by producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oils and animal fats. Burning glycerol carbonate generated from the excess glycerol produced by biodiesel production offers the extra advantage of greatly reducing emissions of the sooty particulates that cause respiratory disease.<\/p>\n
This work on glycerol carbonate also supports Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030 initiative, which aims to diversify the Kingdom\u2019s economy from its current reliance on the oil industry.<\/p>\n
Giri explains that this research stems from the idea that some of the hydrocarbons derived from crude oil, which contain only hydrogen and carbon, can be replaced with compounds that also contain oxygen. As well as reducing particulate emissions, burning these oxygenated compounds generates less carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to global warming.<\/p>\n
Oxygenated compounds are known to burn with near-zero soot emissions if the oxygen content is in excess of 33 percent by mass. The oxygen content of glycerol carbonate is 59 percent. The researchers used computational analysis to explore the effect of differing pressures and temperatures on the combustion reactions. This allowed them to identify conditions in which glycerol carbonate will burn cleanly, while also generating the compound 3-hydroxypropanal, which is known to greatly reduce the production of soot.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur results show that glycerol carbonate has great potential to promote cleaner combustion as a fuel additive,\u201d Giri concludes.<\/p>\n
Investigating the chemistry of fuels under engine-relevant extreme temperatures and pressures is a significant challenge. The KAUST researchers are collaborating with Milan Szori and Bela Viskolcz at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, which \u201cbrings together two world-leading teams with the expertise to understand the complexities of combustion chemistry,\u201d Giri explains.<\/p>\n
Further research aims to reveal how to optimize blending glycerol carbonate with conventional fuels. \u201cThis work has the potential to change the future directions of fuel-engine research,\u201d says Aamir Farooq who supervised this work. He and his colleagues are excited about their possible contribution to developing cleaner and greener transportation systems worldwide.<\/p>\n
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References<\/h3>\n
Sz\u0151ri, M., Giri, B. R., Wang, Z., Dawood, A. E., Viskolcz, B. &\u00a0Farooq, A. Glycerol carbonate as a fuel additive for a sustainable future. Sustainable Energy & Fuels\u00a02, 2171-2178 (2018).| article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The potential of glycerol waste from biodiesel production to be simply converted into a clean-burning sustainable fuel is being explored by scientists at KAUST’s\u00a0Clean Combustion Research Center. \u201cAs one of the world\u2019s leading teams in combustion research and innovation, we are always looking into new fuels and additives that help maximize engine efficiency and minimize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[12366,5528],"supplier":[6051,15185],"class_list":["post-58934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-fuels","tag-sustainability","supplier-king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology-kaust","supplier-university-of-miskolc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58934"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=58934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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