Sentences with phrase «into biodiesel fuel»

The algae can be harvested and made into biodiesel fuel and feed for animals.
The algae are then harvested and turned into biodiesel 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.
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.

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The Company's other services include blending of renewable fuels into petroleum products, and the manufacture of biodiesel at its Birmingham facility.»
By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.
But biodiesel solidifies into a gel at the cold temperatures found at high altitude, a fatal flaw for any aircraft fuel.
The Czech jet has fuel heaters to get around this problem, and similar solutions could be engineered into other jet engines, argues physicist Rudi Wiedemann, president and CEO of Biodiesel Solutions, Inc., in Sparks, Nev., the flight's fuel provider.
The EU policies of boosting biodiesel have achieved its implementation in the transport fuels market and increasingly its sustainable nature is being taken into account.
When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.
The tour used 22,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel, which saved 89 tons of CO2 emissions from going into the air.
So it was encouraging to get news from the annual National Biodiesel Conference that progress continues on turning waste products into liquid fuel.
Alternatively — and if the economics justify it — the algae can be processed into biodiesel and other green fuels / chemicals.
The company relies on preexisting, industrial, demonstration - scale fermentation infrastructure to test and optimize its process, and has been able to achieve conversion of 70 — 80 % of biomass into oil - based fuel including jet fuel and biodiesel, which has been road - tested for more than a year in an unblended form in unmodified engines.
Biofuel is bioenergy converted into a liquid fuel such as ethanol or biodiesel, but biomass can also be converted into gaseous fuels via biological or chemical processes such as digestion and gasification.
Our green fuel suppliers repurpose waste streams from food manufacturing and used cooking oils from restaurants — and turn that waste into biodiesel.
«Our study suggests that farmers in Europe who are growing rapeseed for biodiesel might combat global warming in a more effective way, namely by converting those fields into forests and using conventional diesel for fuel,» Johnson told mongabay.com.
Despite its advantages, biodiesel fuel continues to slowly make its way into the mainstream marketplace.
In fact, over the entire life cycle of growing and harvesting crops, turning them into fuel, transporting and using them in vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel emit as much CO2 as petroleum — and require infinitely more acreage.
All of today's diesel vehicles can use up to 5 percent biodiesel («B5»), which is blended into conventional diesel under the specifications governing diesel fuel (ASTM specifications).
The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) program requires fuel suppliers to incorporate a minimum quantity of renewable, biomass - based ethanol or biodiesel into gasoline supplies.
Usually derived from vegetable oils - soy is very popular these days, but animal fats can also be used - biodiesel is made through a chemical process called transesterification which essentially splits the oil into two parts: alkyl esters and glycerine; the esters are the fuel, while the leftover glycerine is often used to make soap and other beauty products.
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.
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