Plenary Lecture
The Vegetable Oil Fuel System for Diesel Engines (VFSD)
Professor Charalampos Arapatsakos
Department of Production and Management Engineering
Democritus University of Thrace
Xanthi, Greece
E-mail: xarapat@pme.duth.gr
Abstract: Petroleum is a non renewable but a finite resource, incapable of being reproduced in human time frames. Over the past 150 years, geologists and other scientists often have predicted that oil reserves would run dry within a few years. The rising oil demand plus the fixed supply equals to the depletion of remaining supplies and increasing economy scarcity. Furthermore, petroleum scarcity could easily destabilize world-wide relations and lead to a major war. Additionally, there is a big need for the protection of the environment. Environmentalists argue that governments must develop new energy technologies that do not rely on fossil fuels. At the present paper it will be examined an automated system that it can be adapted to any diesel engine and it could use any mixture of diesel – vegetable oils as fuel.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr Charalampos Arapatsakos is a Greek citizen, who has been born in Athens. He has studied Mechanical of Engineering. He is Professor on Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. Prof C. Arapatsakos has participated in many research programs about biofuels, gas emissions and antipollution technology. His research domains are mainly on biofuels and their use in internal combustion engines, the power variation from the use of biofuels, the gas emissions and mechanical damages.