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

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

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 ...