Algae is a major renewable fuel which can be used to manufacture Biodiesel. One of the companies in New Zealand successfully developed a system for using sewage waste as a substrate for algae and then it produce bio-diesel. An alga is considered as the highest yield feedstock for biodiesel that can produce more enough oil [...]

Biodiesel is an inexpensive, environmentally friendly source of energy. These benefits have sparked the public’s interest in using this to fuel their cars. This increased interest has motivated many new companies and hobbyists to become producers and sellers of this new fuel. As with any other product, producers and sellers must meet certain regulations and, [...]

The Advantages of Biodiesel Looking closely at biodiesel, we find that its physical and chemical properties are very similar to petroleum based diesel fuel in terms of operation in compression ignition engines (diesel engines). Therefore, biodiesel can be used in diesel engines without expensive alterations to the engine or fuel system. Besides the obvious cost [...]

Biodiesel is a fuel that is friendly to the environment and can easily be made in your own home using everyday things like waste vegetable oil as your main ingredient. The great thing about biodiesel is that you only need three simple ingredients to make it. All you really need is methanol, new or used [...]

Castor oil is the oil that comes from castor beans. The castor bean contains 50% to 55% oil. The oil itself contains a lot of fatty acids similar to those used in cooking oil, some examples of this are oleic acid, linoleic acid, stearic acid and palmitic acid. When you look at vegetable oils, castor [...]

An Australian company named Mission Biofuels has taken it upon themselves to set up a feedstock for biodiesel production. Tree Oils India Limited also known as TOIL for short was a company established in 2003 to develop environment friendly and sustainable energy systems. These systems are based on plant sources and Tree Oils Limited mainly [...]

Biodiesel is something that can be made from any triglyceride. The product that is used the most for this in the United States would be soybean oil. Of course this is not the only oil used other oils include vegetable oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil sunflower and a few others. There are also [...]

US Centrifuge is now offering a machine that is automatic self-cleaning high-speed disc-bowl liquid / liquid centrifugal separation technology for both small and large biodiesel operators thatproduce alternative fuels from WVO, cooking oil, vegetable oil, virgin oil, animal fats, and restaurant greases There are a few different types of centrifuges that can be used in [...]

Camelina is a new product out these days that can be used to make biodiesel, it is friendly to our environment and is an alternative to diesel fuel. Producers of camelina say that it can be produced for a much lower price than other biodiesel crops, for the first time ever it is making the [...]

There are several steps that a biodiesel company must take so that they can produce and run efficiently. They must write out their own business plan, form a boad or group of business people, solicit financing, hire an engineering company, develop their markets, and then finally build their plant and business. For example the business [...]