Sentences with phrase «biodiesel fuel produced»

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).
The best yield comes from soybeans, but they, too, are a net loser, requiring 27 percent more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced.

Not exact matches

We have more ground to cover before it can be commercialized, but developing a viable plant with enough oil to economically produce biodiesel and bio-jet fuel is a major first step.
«The fuel that is produced by our E. coli can be used directly as biodiesel.
Related research also focuses on engineering plants to produce more sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and petrochemicals — i.e., biodiesel and precursors for biodegradable plastics and resins.
Methanol is used for producing biodiesel, as a fuel, denaturant for ethanol, and is a greenhouse gas.
The University of Wales in Newport has been involved in renewable transport for four years, producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil to fuel its campus maintenance vehicles.
Biodiesel is a clean burning, renewable alternative fuel that can be produced from a wide range of vegetable oils and animal fats.
of torque (1,037 Nm) at 1,600 rpm — lower emissions and B20 biodiesel capability that promotes a domestically produced renewable fuel.
The track surface will be composed of recycled and repurposed materials, and the go - karts will be fueled by biodiesel produced from sustainably sourced soybean oil, collected by Food for the Parks concessionaires.
In 2011, the world produced 23 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 6 billion gallons of biodiesel.
Crops can be used to produce automotive fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel.
Crops can also be used to produce automotive fuels, including both ethanol and biodiesel.
Compared to petroleum diesel fuel, which is refined from crude oil, biodiesel combustion produces fewer air pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrocarbons, and air toxics.
In 2007 the world produced 13.1 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and 2.3 billion gallons of biodiesel.
«The biodiesel produced at Big Island Biodiesel is made efficiently, yielding high - quality fuel that meets ASTM D6751, and in an organizational culture that scores very high — and drives continual improvement — in quality, environmental, health, safety, and sustainability metricbiodiesel produced at Big Island Biodiesel is made efficiently, yielding high - quality fuel that meets ASTM D6751, and in an organizational culture that scores very high — and drives continual improvement — in quality, environmental, health, safety, and sustainability metricBiodiesel is made efficiently, yielding high - quality fuel that meets ASTM D6751, and in an organizational culture that scores very high — and drives continual improvement — in quality, environmental, health, safety, and sustainability metrics.»
Namely, matching the biodiesel mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) more closely to the amount of biodiesel actually produced in -LSB-...]
Seeker, it's quite possible to produce biodiesel on the scale needed to replace fossil fuel use, only in most countries (even the USA, but not Australia) that would displace food production too much (see Nassau Senior's introductory remarks on machinery not affecting food availability in his classic work on «Wages»).
The United States produces mainly biodiesel and ethanol fuel, which uses corn as the main feedstock.
This type of biodiesel produces far less toxic and global warming emissions compared to conventional diesel fuel, and is sourced, produced, and sold locally.
In 2009 the world was on track to produce 19 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 4 billion gallons of biodiesel.
By 1983, the process for producing fuel - quality, engine - tested biodiesel was completed and published internationally.
(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.
Plant material is used in a variety of ways to create energy: combusted to produce heat or electricity; anaerobically digested to produce methane; and converted to ethanol, biodiesel, or hydrogenated vegetable oil for fuel.
Oil Palm produces ~ 500 gallons / acre of biodiesel, and it's a perennial — less fuel for plowing & planting, and squeezing the oil out is less energy intensive than distilling ethanol.
«According to the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standards Program Regulatory Impact Analysis, released in February 2010, biodiesel from soy oil results, on average, in a 57 % reduction in greenhouse gases compared to fossil diesel, and biodiesel produced from waste grease results in an 86 % reduction»
Grist reported on a radio story on the plant which said, «The City of Calgary's entire fleet of trucks and buses may soon be partly fueled by biodiesel produced from Alberta beef tallow.
The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.
Not biodiesel, conventional diesel fuel: The plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000 gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of ethanol.
In practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesel.
Or, for those of you who want a more technical definition, it is «a fuel comprised of mono - alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats...» (National Biodiesel Board) How are the produced?
In other words, biodiesel produced under such conditions has a greater climate impact than conventional fossil fuels.
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