Mining Plants for Biodiesel in China
- DOI
- 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.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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 -