How does the oil yield per acre of a crop relate to the final biodiesel yield?

Question

Well I just wanna ask, how does the oil yield per acre of a certain crop relate to the final biodiesel yield?

Like why does olive oil have the highest yield in oil per acre, and have a higher biodiesel yield than peanut?

Answer 1

It depends on production of Oil seeds and based on that one has to calculate % of Oil  in particular oil  seed.Say Jatopa seed has 45% 0il in seed depand in prrocess you may get 38% by s***w expler and by solvent you can extrect 44%.Fpr your second quation Olive oil is not cost efcitive for bio desial.Best Oil seed for Bio-desial isPalm,Jatopa and Alge.

Answer 2

without gov't subsidies it uses more oil/fuel to produce than it can replace on the free market.  at least as far as american agriculture goes.

here in SouthEastern North Carolina we are building a biodiesel fuels plant and surprisingly the major oil companies are buying up all of the nearby corn crop yeilds for years ahead, so that anything brought to the plant in the future to be processed for fuels will have the added cost of transporting from the mid-west built into the final cost of the fuel.  and make it a less attractive alternative than the imported oil from the persian gulf and other places.

Yeah right, BP is investing in YOUR future!!!  Investing in making sure you by from the likes of them!

go figure.

Answer 3

The bio-diesel yield would be directly related to the oil yield, so in theory what you are asking is true.  Olive oil however would probably never be used for bio-diesel for a couple of reasons. First it is a very high quality expensive oil and second the overall yield produced (like in total tons produced) would be too low to be attractive as a source of bio-diesel.  Crops like soybeans and canola will be a much better source for bio-diesel.