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.
Not exact matches
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.
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 b
Biodiesel, they went head - to - head in the «Fast
Fuel» Challenge, where they turned waste vegetable oil from fast food restaurants
into biodieselbiodiesel.