"After the demise of the commercial sugar industry here in Hawaii, we were challenged with creating a "New Agriculture for our island. As a part of that effort large plantings of eucalyptus now occupy some of the lands once used for sugar. Soon those trees will be harvested. So the question is ; Can the oils found in the fall-down/ by-product (branches and leaves) of these trees be used in the production of bio fuels?"Anybody have any info about eucalyptus oil? Leave a comment.
2005/02/07
Eucalyptus oil?
A reader from Hawaii writes:
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Hey Man, incase you wanna know then i'm going to tell you and i am going to tell you that you should know that you cannot extract anything that can be converted to biodiesel using trunks and leaves of menthol tree. Well first you cannot any unsaponifiable materials into biodiesel. Trees contains terpenes, cellulose, proteins which could not be converted to biodiesel...(to be continiued)
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it helps, but I found an article saying that it can be used as biodiesel and that the Australians did some testing with it.
ReplyDeletehttp://energysavingnow.com/biofuels/wvo.shtml
I have not yet come across eucalyptus oil used as biodiesel, and I really doubt if it can be, given its cost, and the other applications for the oil...plus also it is doubtful whether its chemical structure can allow it to be used as biodiesel
ReplyDeleteOne place where you can have inputs on the various plant oils used as biodiesel is:
Biodiesel Encyclopedia
Hope this helps