Researchers also claimed that transesterification reactions were successful using inexpensive, abundant waste cooking oil from a major fast-food chain, as well as soybean oil, corn oil, olive oil, and ...

If the biodiesel yield is 15 liters, this corresponds to less than €0.25/liter or US$1.00/gallon. There are other minor expenses, but overall brewing home-made biodiesel can be a profitable ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the ...

In 2010, the estimated cost of biodiesel production was $3.11 per gallon, which, given our current prices, makes it a hard sell to treatment plants during a year of cheap oil and gas.

Biodiesel is produced through transesterification, converting triglycerides into biodiesel and producing glycerol as a low-value byproduct. Since glycerol makes up about 10% of the output, efforts ...

European biodiesel company Solarix has created what may be a sustainable powerhouse for rural areas: the Sustainer, a “power box” in a 20-foot container frame that converts oil-bearing crops ...

A professor from the University of Missouri has developed a process to make propylene glycol using the glycerin that's normally left behind as a waste product from the biodiesel production process.

This distillation process accounts for 0.28–1.10 kilograms of steam per liter of biodiesel compared with 2.11–5.40 kilograms required to produce 1 liter of anhydrous ethanol (Supplementary ...

A new fuel-cell concept, developed by an Michigan State University researcher, will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while removing their dependence on fossil ...

Toro will also start selling June new diesel-to-biodiesel conversion kits that cost between $30 and $500 (I'l admit, I'm not sure what these kits are all about).