Chemists reported development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae
oil into biodiesel fuel — a discovery they predict could one day lead to U.S. independence from petroleum as a fuel.
We will be working with the staff to donate any leftover meals to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank and the Jubilee Soup Kitchen, send used cooking oil to be converted
into biodiesel fuel, and donate extra event give - a-ways to local organizations.
It is the world's biggest importer of palm oil and global demand for the stuff is soaring, even before much is getting
converted into biodiesel, as increasingly it will.
Another fossil fuel company investing in algae: BP has announced that it will be partnering with Martek Biosciences to work on advancing development of conversion of
sugars into biodiesel, using Martek's «unique
«She flew and she flew just fine,» says physicist Rudi Wiedemann, president and CEO of Biodiesel Solutions, Inc., whose company provided the fuel for the historic October flight: fresh canola oil
refined into biodiesel.
Run in partnership with Clean Energy Biofuels, the station uses 100 % solar power to convert waste oil from local
restaurants into biodiesel.
In a recent panel on environmental sustainability, Highland Park High School students were credited with saving 90,000 plastic water bottles from landfills, recycling cafeteria
grease into biodiesel fuel and building a habitat for endangered turtles.
While it may not sound like the most appetizing product, over the last ten years yellow grease has gone from a waste that restaurants had to pay haulers to remove to a valuable commodity that restaurants can sell to be
processed into biodiesel, a more sustainable alternative to petroleum - based diesel.
Our green fuel suppliers repurpose waste streams from food manufacturing and used cooking oils from restaurants — and turn that
waste into biodiesel.
Mark Mauss, president of SunsOil, a company that turns vegetable and animal
fat into biodiesel, believes the visionary company will succeed.
Researchers have already modified E. coli to make medicines and chemicals, and now Keasling and his colleagues have turned the
organisms into biodiesel factories.
In their analysis, the team looked at the land area, technology, and costs required for processing oil - cane
biomass into biodiesel under a variety of oil production scenarios, from 2 percent oil in the plant to 20 percent.
They have new methods, and there's actually a firm out in Minnesota that's working on this using a zirconium - based catalysis for breaking up membrane
lipid into biodiesel.
Here is an idea we like: turn plant oils used to make biodiesel into bioplastics first, make them into food packaging, then instead of throwing it in the garbage, turn it
back into biodiesel.
As part of SEEDS, students are also investigating ways to turn oil from the cafeteria's French
fries into biodiesel.
In terms of what best to drive now — I have been driving on recycled cooking oil (cleaned up
into biodiesel actually) for the last 8 years which has been carbon neutral (or close to it strictly speaking).
A team of researchers in South Korea have developed a new process for converting the lipids in sewage
sludge into biodiesel, at not only a lower cost than conventional biodiesel, but with much higher yields.
What you do end up with, however, is a huge amount of protein - rich grubs that can be fed to chickens, or fish, or even
turned into biodiesel.
Another fossil fuel company investing in algae: BP has announced that it will be partnering with Martek Biosciences to work on advancing development of conversion of
sugars into biodiesel, using Martek's «unique algae - based technologies and intellectual property.
Here is an idea we like: turn plant oils used to make biodiesel into bioplastics first, make them into
«The lipids from wastewater stored in the bacteria are a renewable energy source since they can be easily
converted into biodiesel, for example.»
With help from Evolution Biodiesel, they went head - to - head in the «Fast Fuel» Challenge, where they turned waste vegetable oil from fast food
restaurants into biodiesel.
Examples of the type of investments made under the city's offset program include converting restaurant
grease into biodiesel or installing photovoltaic panels in low - income housing; the critical point, Newsom stressed, is that the offsets only fund local initiatives, not some that «promise action in distant lands.»
Alternatively — and if the economics justify it — the algae can be
processed into biodiesel and other green fuels / chemicals.
He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil
into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.
Restaurant and takeout packaging are compostable and biodegradable, and they even sell back the fryer oil to their supplier who then turns
it into biodiesel fuel.
The team then added an extra bit of genetic code in the form of short amino acid sequences that instruct the altered E. coli cells to secrete the bacterial enzyme, which breaks down the plant cellulose, turning it into sugar; the E. coli in turn transforms that sugar
into biodiesel.
Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS), funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), has developed sugarcane that produces oil, called lipidcane, that can be converted
into biodiesel or jet fuel in place of sugar that is currently used for ethanol production.
A master's degree thesis project shows that chicken fat (aka schmaltz) can be turned
into biodiesel.
The most popular examples from crops are turning corn or sugarcane into ethanol, or turning palm oil
into biodiesel.
Only 10 % of the mass used is turned
into biodiesel, whereas we use whole plant waste and obtain 70 %.
Fat molecules, for instance, can be transformed via a chemical process, called transesterification,
into biodiesel.
We first need to make sure that absolutely all of the waste vegetable oil in the country gets collected and turned
into biodiesel.
The Warwick High School 12th - grader took over his family's downstairs bathroom, turning
it into a biodiesel laboratory.
By - products of ethanol production include distiller's grain, which is used as a very low cost cattle feed, and also corn oil can be extracted, which can be converted
into biodiesel.
Novozymes has launched Eversa Transform, the first commercially available enzymatic solution (a liquid lipase) to convert both glycerides and free fatty acids (FFA)
into biodiesel.
The Co2s could also be captured and used for growing «algea» which can then be made
into biodiesel or ethanol which is very clean and green for all our transportation needs.
Both parcels of land will be used to cultivate Jatropha curcas, the seeds of which will be refined
into biodiesel.
In addition, 985 gallons of waste cooking grease is being collected and turned
into biodiesel.
Researchers at United Environment and Energy LLC in Horseheads, New York (yes, Horseheads...) have announced that they have developed «the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil
into biodiesel.»
While S. Korea has the know - how, it doesn't have enough seaweed, with the reverse being true of Indonesia.Cultivated Seaweed to be Used In 2006, Indonesia harvested over a million tons of seaweed, a figure which is expected to nearly double by 2009, and is hoping to turn a portion of
that into biodiesel — with the goal of lowering the price of biodiesel from $ 2 / liter to $ 1 / liter.
Now Indonesia is looking to capitalize on its abundant supplies of seaweed and turn
it into biodiesel.