Mining Plants for Biodiesel in China

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10.2991/icaees-15.2015.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Biodiesel; Oil analysis; Seed plant; Species diversity; Yunnan

Abstract

It has become an action plan to develop biodiesel in China. The botanical and laboratory investigations together with literature surveys had been used to prospect potential plants for biodiesel development. Based on field surveys and collections of specimens and samples, 422 oil-bearing plant species had been documented from Yunnan, the richest province with plant species diversity in the country. The oil content, acid value, iodine value, saponification value, and fatty acid composition of plant samples had been tested and assessed. The results revealed that Camellia oleifera var. monosperma, Michelia sphaerantha, Euonymus tingens, Daphniphyllum paxianum, Trichosanthes rubriflos, Symplocos chinensis and Daphniphyllum macropodum might be selected as the potential plant species for biodiesel development in China.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chunlin Long
AU  - Jun Yang
AU  - Zhi Wang
AU  - Lijuan Ma
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Mining Plants for Biodiesel in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 726
EP  - 730
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaees-15.2015.133
DO  - 10.2991/icaees-15.2015.133
ID  - Long2015/07
ER  -