The study of the evolution of biodiesel research in Brazil / O estudo da evolução da pesquisa em biodiesel no Brasil

Authors

  • Roger Pereira Alves
  • Lucas Oliveira Gomes
  • Julião Pereira
  • Igor Savioli Flores
  • Nelson Roberto Antoniosi Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n3-490

Keywords:

PNPB, RBTB, biofuel, history of biodiesel, regional development

Abstract

With the “birth” of the National Biodiesel Production and Use Program (PNPB) in 2004, there was a need to look for ways to maintain the biofuel production chain throughout Brazil. One of the main goals of this program was the promotion of Social Inclusion, Economic and Regional Development through job creation, human resources and income.

Since the beginning of the National Program and the Brazilian Biodiesel Network, conferences, lectures and events related to the development and technology of biofuel have gotten support and representation on a national level. The importance of the rising of public policies for the development of new technologies aimed at the production of biodiesel on a regional basis, in addition to the study of new techniques and synthetic routes for its production, among the creation of new researches in this field, which was and still is of great value for the productive, economic, scientific and technological sectors. Based on the outcome results of biodiesel study before and after the rising of the government programs, a more detailed study of scientific production on this subject is necessary.

The goal of this work was to statistically analyze, through the ‘Web of Science’ database, the national evolution of biodiesel technology in Brazil. Making a comparison between different regions of the country, it was possible to observe that the regions (southeast and south) with the largest amount of resources received from the Federal Government (Finep, CNPq, Capes) and from the state (FAPs) in the last 20 years for the development of technologies focused on biodiesel, had proportionally greater quantitative production of scientific works indexed on the analyzed platform.

With these results it was possible to conclude that the most relevant factor in scientific production is the amount of financial resources allocated to the training of human resources (research grants), investments in high quality equipment (laboratories), raw material and other necessary material for the production of new technologies (final product).

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Published

2020-03-31

How to Cite

Alves, R. P., Gomes, L. O., Pereira, J., Flores, I. S., & Filho, N. R. A. (2020). The study of the evolution of biodiesel research in Brazil / O estudo da evolução da pesquisa em biodiesel no Brasil. Brazilian Journal of Development, 6(3), 16360–16367. https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n3-490

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