Brazil's National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) on Wednesday approved increasing the level of biofuels mixed into fossil fuels ...

Biodiesel fuels attracted a lot of attention in the 2000s, ... Those materials then undergo a process called transesterification which transforms them into a fuel.

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 ...

Biodiesel is created through a process called transesterification, which typically sees methanol and animal fat or waste vegetable oils catalyzed with a strong alkali, the primary result of which ...

You can make biodiesel in a bucket with little more than some drain cleaner, gas-line de-icer and a wooden spoon. But it can be dangerous. With a wide variety of new biodiesel kits on the market, i ...

The novel microbial and catalyst process developed by Yuan, Dai and their teams allowed their electro-biodiesel to reach 4.5% solar-to-molecule efficiency for converting carbon dioxide to lipid ...

Incobrasa processes an average of 120,000 bushels of soybeans per day, utilizing soybeans from within about a 50-mile radius ...

Biodiesel and renewable diesel each offer sustainability benefits, but they affect engines and filters differently. Learn how ...

The transesterification process begins with a feedstock (any of the above-mentioned sources) mixed with alcohol and a catalyst. A chemical reaction breaks the ester bonds in the feedstock's ...