BIODIESEL AS A FUEL FOR INDUSTRIAL AND POWER PLANT GAS TURBINES

Biodiesel, fatty acid methyl esters, are produced from virgin vegetable edible or non-edible oils, from waste edible oils (cooking oils, restaurants oils) and animal fats in a chemical reaction known as transesterification. This fuel, especially biodiesel from animal fats and waste edible oils has recently become more attractive because they don't have a direct impact on the food chain (unlike soybean and corn). Biodiesel can be a clean, renewable, economically fuel in generators and turbines to produce electricity. To achieve this goal it is necessary to redesign gas turbine-particularly combustor in redesign of burners with an imperative to decrease gas turbine emission, particularly CO(2) and NO(x). This paper deals with possibilities to use biodiesel as a fuel for industrial and power plant gas turbines.