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A project by
Ryan Wong
Low Ji Ken
Lei Yuxian
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Fuels produced from plant biomass or treated
industrial waste that can be used as a source of
energy
Examples: Methane from animal waste
Sawdust from drilling wood.
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Cost: cheaper than gasoline and fossil fuels
Available from many sources(plants, human
waste) and thus is recyclable, unlike fossil fuels
or oil
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Security: Locally produced, wont be influenced
by foreign countries
Economy: Helps open up jobs to harvest
biofuel: esp in rural areas
Carbon emmision: Easier to burn, less CO2
when burned.
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Amount of energy: Low, great amounts of it is
required for
Produces a lot of green house gases from
producing it.
High cost – refining it takes a lot of money to
make
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Water: Huge amounts of water is used to
irrigate plants.
Food: Use necessary staple food to produce
biofuels- shortage.
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The Mexican Federal Government has
started a programme to ensure the
development and viability of sustainable
aviation biofuels in the country.
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A series of workshops for the Flight Plan were designed
using a schematic view of the supply chain.
The first workshop was organised to look into the general
problematic of biofuel, specifically to the sustainability
issues that need to be observed across the supply chain.
The other workshops were organised so that all the points
across the supply chain could be analysed, including:
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raw materials and extraction;
infrastructure and refining; and
financing, legislation, logistics and distribution.
An average audience of 120 people throughout this
project, all the principal actors, as well as several
institutions, gathered in the same forum sharing their
ideas and proposals, in this case study
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Mexico has historically been handicapped in the
production of the necessary fuels to feed the
requirements of its economy.
For many years, the vegetable oil industry,
important in producing biofuel, has been in on
standby, as many of the usual vegetable oil
generating feedstocks have not been produced in
Mexico for some time due to lack of water or
adequate land.
The difference in densities between the biofuel and
the fossil fuel have to be taken into account and
has caused problems in the storage of the biofuel.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck3FYVNl6s
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http://www.enviro.aero/Flightplantowardssu
stainableaviationbiofuelsinMexico.aspx
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Advantag
es_and_Disadvantages_of_Biofuels