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PP-III-56THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING OF MOTOR FUEL COMPONENTSFROM NATURAL CARBOXYLIC ACIDSRomanova Anastasiya, Shvets Valeriy, Suchkov Yury, Korneev IgorD. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russialiceistka2003@mail.ru, hxc@muctr.ru, +7(499) 9789554The world’s fossil fuel resources – including crude oil, natural gas and coal – arehuge, however they will be exhausted sooner or later. There is already fossil fueldeficit leading to a rise of motor fuel prices. As a result use of renewable energysources expands steadily. Thus, the most significance acquires a biofuel producedfrom vegetable oils, animal fats, or its derivatives, particularly, fatty acids.In literature there are a lot of works devoted to the process of producing thebiofuel engine. At present biodiesel is extensively produced both in the USA andEurope. This fuel consists of methyl esters of the fatty acids (FAME) of the parent oiland fat. Biodiesel is better than petrodiesel in terms of sulphur content, flash point,aromatic content and biodegradability. But biodiesel is a better solvent thanpetrodiesel, and has been known to break down deposits of residue in the fuel linesof vehicles that have previously been run on petrodiesel. Another disadvantage ofbiodiesel is that it has lower energy content, since diesel engines inject equalvolumes of fuel so power drops 8%. These disadvantages can be avoided if notFAME but hydrocarbons are produced from triglycerides of oil or from pure fattyacids.In the current report we present results of investigation of process for productionof biofuel by decarboxylation of fatty acids, which in perspective should be a keystage in obtaining hydrocarbons containing 15-21 carbon atoms. This type of fuel canbe termed as biofuel II generation.542