Abstract

Although Camelina Sativa as oleaginous seeds has obvious advantages as a feed of wonder health benefits, it has been recommended as a highly promising environmental sustainable energy crop and a perfect source of biodiesel. The current work deals with the industrial significance of intensifying the oil and biodiesel yield from Camelina seeds by incorporation of a pretreatment stage for raw material texturing using Instant Controlled Pressure-Drop (DIC) process. The texturing process proved to promote the yield of oils produced by pressing the seeds, and extraction the seeds using solvent, by an amount of 75.9 and 82.9 kg oil /1000 kg seeds, respectively compared to the raw untreated seeds. Consequently, the transformation of the oil using conventional transesterification and in-situ transesterification reactions showed similar trend for increasing the level of biodiesel yield by 86.58 and 155.8 kg/1000kg seeds from conventional transesterification and in-situ transesterification, respectively after texturing the seeds by DIC at 5 bars saturated steam for 40s. The promising findings of the current work could be considered as an innovative approach for cost effective biodiesel production for industrial purposes.