Preparation of biodiesel from fresh rice bran in linkou county
After the global oil crisis broke out, clean energy, represented by biomass energy, received worldwide attention. There are many kinds of biomass energy fuels, which eventually become a part of global biomass energy fuels in the form of biogas, bio-hydrogen, biodiesel and fuel ethanol. Agricultural wastes with good environmental protection performance and high tax return rate are excellent raw materials for preparing biomass energy fuels.
This project uses rice bran, an agricultural by-product, as raw material, and uses acid-base gradual transition technology and synchronous dehydration technology to produce biodiesel to alleviate the increasingly prominent energy and fuel problems.
Second, the market prospect
Biodiesel, which is a new type of fuel, is a kind of real green energy with incomparable properties such as environmental protection, low-temperature start-up, safety and renewability.
With the rising price of crude oil and the increasingly serious environmental pollution, biodiesel has attracted more and more attention as a non-toxic, biodegradable and renewable "green" fuel. Biodiesel (BD) is usually prepared by transesterification of animal and vegetable oils and short-chain alcohols. Because the oxygen content of BD is as high as 10%, the application of BD in diesel engines can reduce the emissions of particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur, hydrocarbons, smoke and noise, and burning vegetable oil will not affect the atmospheric carbon dioxide level, because the carbon in these fuels comes from photosynthesis.
The global consumption of biodiesel in the fuel field has slowed down since 2007, reaching 27.31 million tons in 2017, with a compound growth rate of 9.68% within 10 years. The global biodiesel production has gradually increased, and the growth rate rebounded after bottoming out in 2017. In the past two years, it has increased by more than 10%. In 2019, the global biodiesel production reached 47.4 billion liters, and the CAGR reached 8.35% in six years. According to the data, the output of HVO biodiesel in 2019 doubled compared with 2013, reaching 6.5 billion liters. In terms of competition pattern, the top five countries accounted for 57% of the global biodiesel production in 2019, and Indonesia surpassed the United States, Brazil and other countries to become the largest producer (accounting for 16.67% of the global production). In terms of application, the supply and demand in the United States have increased simultaneously. With the steady increase of the minimum blending amount, the market space for biodiesel in the United States is expected to be further opened. The European Union and other countries and regions require the mandatory addition of biodiesel to transportation fuels, and relevant policies promote the development of biodiesel market.
China’s biodiesel industry has great potential. (1) China’s biodiesel industry raw material-production-application (sales) industrial chain has initially taken shape, and the recycling rate of urban garbage is still very low. As one of the main domestic garbage, waste oil has a great market space for resource utilization in the future. (2) Policy support ensures the supply of raw materials, and the output and export of biodiesel in China are growing rapidly. In 2012, China’s biodiesel export volume was only 58 tons, reaching 662,000 tons in 2019, and the compound growth rate reached 280% in seven years. From January to May, 2020, China exported 251,000 tons of biodiesel, a cumulative year-on-year increase of 16.24%. (3) The export price of biodiesel in China went up. There is a certain correlation between the import and export price of biodiesel and the price of palm oil. The export price and the domestic spot price of palm oil have generally shown an upward trend since 2016.
China’s biodiesel industry adheres to the principle of "not competing with grain for land and people for grain", with low-quality waste oil and low-grade oil oil as raw materials and modified acid and alkali and solid acid and alkali as catalysts, and adheres to the green production concept. In recent years, the rising price of crude oil has promoted the rapid development of biodiesel industry. Biodiesel is a kind of biomass energy, which is a monoalkyl ester of long-chain fatty acids obtained by pyrolysis of biomass and other technologies. Biodiesel is used to extract automatic vegetable oil, which is widely used in tractors, trucks and ships.
Biodiesel has a very broad market space in the field of industrial fuels. Boilers and kilns are the main power sources of industrial enterprises and are known as the heart of industry. However, because boilers and kilns in China still use coal, natural gas and petrochemical heavy oil as the main fuels, they have become the air pollution sources second only to power generation boilers. According to the analysis of the current situation of biodiesel industry, compared with traditional fossil fuels, biodiesel is mainly composed of carbohydrates, with few harmful impurities such as sulfur and nitrogen, which makes it easier to burn fully and has low greenhouse gas emissions. It belongs to clean energy and its environmental protection is much higher than traditional fossil fuels. With the strict requirements of national environmental protection standards and energy conservation and emission reduction, replacing traditional industrial fuels such as coal and petrochemical heavy oil with biomass fuel represented by biodiesel will become an important way to curb the deterioration trend of acid precipitation pollution and prevent urban air pollution.
The peak carbon dioxide emissions Action Plan before 2030 proposes that advanced bio-liquid fuels will be vigorously promoted to replace traditional fuels, so as to reasonably control oil and gas consumption, and the application of advanced bio-liquid fuels in the transportation field will be actively expanded as one of the important measures to promote the low-carbon transformation of transportation equipment. As China’s economy is still in a relatively fast development stage, considering the demand of "peak carbon dioxide emissions" and "carbon neutrality", biodiesel will have huge market potential. China has stepped up research and development and utilization of new energy sources, and taken active measures in developing clean energy, improving energy utilization rate and reducing waste emissions, which has promoted the market share of biodiesel in China to gradually expand with the cause of low-carbon environmental protection.
The overall demand for fuel oil in China is large, and with the continuous development of economy, it can be predicted that the demand for fuel oil in China will continue to increase in the future. As a renewable and clean energy, the development of biodiesel industry is of great significance to ensure the safety of China’s energy strategy, comprehensively manage the ecological environment, and adjust China’s agricultural industrial structure to promote economic development. Judging from the road usage of biodiesel in China from 2013 to 2019, it can be seen that the application of biodiesel in China is gradually deepening. The development of biodiesel industry is consistent with the current petrochemical industry’s adjustment of oil product structure and improvement of diesel-gasoline ratio. As a substitute for petroleum diesel, biodiesel has broad prospects in China.
Iii. Favorable conditions for project construction (1) Policy conditions The Biodiesel Industry Development Policy issued by the Energy Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the Policy) proposes to build a sustainable raw material supply system that is suitable for the characteristics of China’s resources, with waste oil as the main component and wood (grass) as the supplement. The Policy encourages the promotion and use of biodiesel in key areas of air pollution prevention and control such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. Encourage automobile and ship manufacturers and related research institutions to optimize the design of diesel engine systems and give full play to the power, energy saving and environmental protection characteristics of biodiesel blended fuel.
Article 19 of the Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of Petroleum Refined Oil Circulation drafted by the Ministry of Commerce clearly points out that it is necessary to promote the development of green innovation, encourage and guide enterprises to develop and apply new technologies and equipment, and improve the level of safety, environmental protection and resource utilization. Local energy authorities should work with relevant departments to study and formulate market circulation policies for alternative energy sources such as biodiesel and ethanol gasoline, and build an efficient, clean and low-carbon energy supply system.
(2) Regional advantages
Linkou county is located in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, among the three cities of Mudanjiang, Jixi and Qitaihe. It governs 11 towns and 176 administrative villages, with a total area of 6,688 square kilometers and a total population of 350,000. Its landform features are "eight mountains, half water and half fields" and its forest coverage rate is 65%. Linkou county has the "golden signboard" of the national model county of land and resources conservation and intensive, and the construction land index in the next decade is nearly 800 hectares. We are focusing on promoting the construction of the "4321" industrial development system, that is, focusing on the "four industries with superior resources" of graphite, cement, coal and calcium carbonate, expanding the "three industries with agricultural characteristics" of goose, Chinese herbal medicine and small berries, developing the "two new energy industries" of hydropower and wind energy, creating a number of pillar industries, backbone enterprises and leading products, and actively building a multi-point support, multi-industry and diversified development. (3) Traffic Advantages: Roads such as Heda and Fanghui in linkou county are intertwined with railways such as Lindong and Tujia. The Mujia high-speed railway that has been opened can reach Harbin in 2 hours, Mudanjiang Hailang International Airport, Jixi Xingkai Lake Airport and Suifenhe Suidong Airport in 1 hour and 30 minutes. The three-dimensional traffic network of roads, railways and aviation is smooth, realizing a "two-hour economic circle" centered on Linkou. IV. Contents and Scale of Project Construction The project covers an area of 90,000 square meters, with a building area of 39,000 square meters. Two production lines with an annual output of 58,000 tons of biodiesel will be built, and ancillary works such as water supply and drainage, power supply, heating, roads, greening and environmental protection will be built.
V. Total investment of the project
The total investment of the project is about 100 million yuan, including 82 million yuan in fixed assets and 18 million yuan in working capital.
Six, the main financial indicators of the project after production, the annual sales income of 40 million yuan, profits of 12 million yuan, profits and taxes of 2.4 million yuan, the investment recovery period of 8 years.
VII. The social evaluation project makes use of agricultural wastes as resources, turns them into valuables, realizes the dual benefits of resource reuse and environmental protection, and can find 100 jobs. The development of biodiesel plays a very important role and significance in ensuring energy security, promoting agricultural development and increasing farmers’ income.
VIII. Ways of cooperation
Sole proprietorship, joint venture and cooperation IX. Mode of investment: capital, equipment and technology X. Progress and stage of the project
Preliminary preparation stage XI. Project construction site: linkou county Economic Development Zone
XII. Contact information Contact unit: linkou county Economic Cooperation Promotion Center
Associated person: Zhou Yang
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