UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the ...

In 2006, Austin had more biodiesel pumps than any other U.S. city, a distinction that owed much to Jeff Plowman, who co-founded Austin Biofuels in 2003 with mechanical engineer Kurt Lyell and diesel ...

Biodiesel is not likely to replace gasoline as the main source of transportation fuel in most of our lifetimes. But researchers at Wake Forest University are convinced that they have a formula for a ...

A: Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to ...

Kevin Lofgren in the lab holding a flask containing the pure biodiesel product made with the process described in the journal Energy & Fuels. UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to ...

Most biofuels, biodiesel included, are made in the Midwest from decidedly Midwestern crops–corn for ethanol, and soy beans for biodiesel. (The National Biodiesel Board, located in Missouri, was ...

Biodiesel is made with different percentages of diesel fuel and extracted soybean oil or sometimes animal fats or other vegetable oils. The cost for traditional diesel and biodiesel are about the same ...

Kolmar's American Greenfuels Plant in New Haven. A recently-completed expansion will allow the plant to produce up to 55 million gallons of fuel each year from used cooking oil and other recycled ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 27 (Reuters) - Biodiesel made from canola oil would emit 50 percent less greenhouse gas than petroleum diesel fuel, which would make it eligible for the U.S. mandate to ...

LuLu Group, one of the UAE’s largest retail chains, has begun powering its delivery fleet with biodiesel made from used cooking oil collected across its stores. This move is part of the company’s ...