People
with biodiesel vehicles typically make their own fuel or get it from other local biodiesel drivers with the know - how to make it.
Lots of events try to go green
with biodiesel generators or solar panels, but Rock the Bike has developed the Biker Bar, (patent pending) available for rent in New York and San Francisco.
Last night, when British rock band Gomez kicked off their North American tour in Burlington, VT, they were not only burning cleaner and greener
with biodiesel fuel in their tour bus, but they also implemented a multitude of eco-friendly initiatives.
Isolated from electrical systems, the lodge has so far produced the little energy it consumes (for laundry, refrigeration, lighting and low consuming artifacts like fans or guests» computers) with regular diesel generators; but is now adjusting its electrical generation system to work
with biodiesel.
Rachel Burton, of Piedmont Biofuels, summed up the reasons why this move makes sense for everyone, whether they are involved in biodiesel for their ideals or their wallet: «Many people in the industry became involved
with biodiesel not for its own sake, but to realize these greater environmental and social goals.
It would be a great idea if new stationary diesel engines were designed to be both as clean as possible and run on both fossil - diesel and biodiesel (some of the emission control equipment on «clean» diesel cars has trouble
with biodiesel, which is really a shame).
Also, check out our on - the - ground coverage of the green and not so green, and see why Andrew Bird no longer tops off
with biodiesel.
In the future, perhaps, loggers will use chainsaws that burn alcohol distilled from sugar cane and drive trucks fueled
with biodiesel.
For conscientious consumers who already own a diesel vehicle, filling up
with biodiesel may reduce your overall global warming emissions, especially if your biodiesel supplier is focused on waste resources.
With biodiesel, we have congressionally mandated production levels that are unnecessary and unrealistic.
A car that is powered
with biodiesel will make use of these renewable fuel sources to run its engine and cut down its carbon footprint.
In Manhattan, the noisy, hopeful cavalcade of protesters — led by Hurricane Sandy survivors carrying placards of sunflowers and Native Americans in traditional headdresses — took over the streets of Midtown, juggling, singing, blowing synagogue shofars and conch shells, whistling and beating drums,
with biodiesel - powered floats chugging along.
Both plants will sell to Pemex and if all goes well, the energy behemoth will start replacing more dirty diesel
with biodiesel.
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Working from the idea that more people will fill up
with biodiesel if they knew where they could get it, NearBio offers a free service delivering a database of more than 1,000 biodiesel sellers (as of today, they've got 1039 locations across the
GM showed off its updated heavy - duty pickups
with a biodiesel - compatible Duramax Diesel engine.
We can still hope that in a couple of years, when low - sulfur diesel is widely available in North - America, Mercedes will sell a version of the B - Class with a diesel engine (to be used
with biodiesel, of course!).
In 1997, Tickell set out on the road
with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.
Anyone familiar
with biodiesel can tell you that's no small feat,» says chemical engineer Chad Wocken, EERC environmental technologies research manager.
Not exact matches
With new and upcoming policy changes, uncertainties in the
biodiesel and ethanol markets look set to continue plaguing trade flows into Europe.
It was so fabulous (the boys haven't stopped talking about it), and it made me highly nostalgic for my first car (how fun would it be to convert one of those to
biodiesel with the kids in a few years?!).
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.
Catsimatidis, who owns United Metro Energy Corp., is building a new
biodiesel - processing facility in Greenpoint, and was already awarded a $ 62 million contract last year that provided city government
with «heating oil, bio-blend and bio-heat bulk deliveries,» records show.
1277 - A and 642 - A, in relation to aligning the City of New York's energy code
with recent amendments to the 2016 New York state energy code and ratio of
biodiesel in heating oil, respectively.»
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.
A tax credit has leveled the playing field
with other renewable fuels like
biodiesel and ethanol.
Valesko says Butterball is experimenting
with separating fats and oils from the rest of the «eviscerates» — exactly the type of separation that Changing World Technologies tries to avoid
with its simplified process — and the company has a deal
with Athens, Tennessee — based Suns - Oil, which will convert the isolated fats and oils into a high - value, road - ready
biodiesel.
Turning to ethanol or
biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping
with the Thanksgiving tradition.
After all, the U.S. alone burns some 530 billion liters of gasoline a year, compared
with just 7.5 billion liters of
biodiesel.
In accordance
with an EU directive, conventional automotive diesel is supplemented
with seven percent
biodiesel.
«Cars fuelled
with pure
biodiesel require specially designed engines,» explains Dr Lukas Gooßen.
And
with ever cheaper natural gas widely available now, paying a premium for ethanol or
biodiesel seemed frivolous.
The next step will be field tests
with a Michigan - based
biodiesel manufacturer.
Ms. Reyero's thesis, «Advances in
biodiesel production: ethanolysis and new heterogeneous catalysts,» was directed by Professor Luis Gandía Pascual and Professor María Cruz Arzamendi Manterola, from the Department of Applied Chemistry at the UPNA, and was awarded an Outstanding
with Honours PhD.
Chemical engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of
biodiesel and the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the environmental impact associated
with the production of this biofuel.»
Such approaches are at the heart of what is wrong
with the current European focus on accepting
biodiesel only made from previously cleared land.
German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's
biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production,
with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.
The team has now demonstrated that
biodiesel can be quickly produced from waste cooking oil by direct ultrasonic irradiation
with caustic soda, sodium hydroxide NaOH or potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the chemical catalysts for the process known as a transesterification reaction.
Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by
biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit
with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.
In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated
with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the
biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties
with samples that had not been treated.
After all, the U.S. alone burns some 530 billion liters of gasoline a year, compared
with around 170 billion liters of diesel (and just 7.5 billion liters of
biodiesel).
Biodiesel can not compete
with current petroleum prices, which are relatively low, so jatropha would be better suited for local projects that improve rural livelihoods and basic energy services.
The plan is to match the basic electric - drive system
with various recharging sources, including engines that burn gasoline, ethanol and
biodiesel fuels as well as hydrogen fuel cells.
Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot
with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning
with a 20 percent blend of
biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent
biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.
One airline company is experimenting
with new biofuels for airplanes (
biodiesel won't work as it freezes at altitude).
He then continued
with the group to carry out his PhD
with Dr Moray Stark researching the effects of
biodiesels on engine lubricants during usage.
February 4, 2014 -
Biodiesel has been around for quite a while now, and,
with the help of researchers working
with the University of California, Davis in the United States, it might soon get a companion: biogasoline.
Michikazu Hara of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Yokohama and several research colleagues in Japan have demonstrated that a charred mixture of inexpensive sugars, starch or cellulose can be treated
with sulfuric acid to create a solid acid catalyst for making
biodiesel that is completely insoluble, cheap to prepare and easy to recycle.
Hidden soy exists in thousands of everyday foods and cosmetics as well as products such as cardboards, paints, cars,
biodiesel fuels, fabric softeners, mattresses and even books printed
with soy ink.
«But if you walk in
with a grant for $ 10,000 to develop a program for creating
biodiesel in your classroom, the principal will say, «How soon can you start?»»