REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

www.mod.gov.rs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Material Resources Sector

Defensive Technologies Department

Military Technical Institute

www.vti.mod.gov.rs

individual BIODIESEL PRODUCTION - significant component of NATIONAL DEFENsE POLICY

pavle hadžić

Goša institute, Belgrade, Serbia, phadzic@yahoo.com

Dragoslava Stojiljković

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia

Nebojša Manić

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia

Vladimir jovanović

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract: Acquiring of energetic self-sufficiency represent  a valuable task in time of potential  politic, military and economic crisis.  Also, energetic self reliance is a significant component of national defense strategy. A promising option for realizing this task seems to be individual biodiesel production. Large consumers of fossil fuel, as agriculture and civil transport activities, could in great part substitute their needs for fossil diesel by biodiesel. Based on available land for biodiesel feedstock cultivation, total quantity of potential biodiesel production in Serbia is estimated to 250.000t/year. Biodiesel production is relatively undemanding regarding technology and necessary equipment and is agreeable for both professionals and individual producers. In this paper we report on our investigation of biodiesel production from different feedstock (rapeseed and soy oil and waste vegetable oil) under conditions widely used among individual biodiesel producers. Quality of obtained biodiesel was analyzed for its compliance with EN14214 Standard.

Key words: biodiesel, technology, production, energetic self-sufficiency.