Waste Vegetable Oil
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Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO), oil that is left-over after frying food and other uses, is used as a feedstock for production of biodiesel.
News
- British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips, 21 February 2009 by the New York Times: "Last year, when the price of crude oil topped $147 a barrel, a number of large companies in Europe and the United States were spurred to set up plants to collect and refine used cooking oil into biodiesel."
- "The global recession and the steep drop in oil prices have now killed many of those large refining ventures. But smaller, simpler ones...are moving in to fill the void with their direct-to-tank product, having been deluged by offers of free oil from restaurants."
- "Used cooking oil has attracted growing attention in recent years as a cleaner, less expensive alternative to fossil fuels for vehicles. In many countries, including the United States, the oil is collected by companies and refined into a form of diesel. Some cities use it in specially modified municipal buses or vans. And the occasional environmentalist has experimented with individually filtering the oil and using it as fuel."[1]
Companies
- Energy Alternative Solutions Inc. - EAS is building a biodiesel plant using waste vegetable oil and restaurant tallow as a feedstock in central California.
References
| Waste for bioenergy use | edit | |
| Wood waste (Wood pellets) Agricultural waste (Biomass pellets, Corn stover, Dung, Straw, Waste citrus peels, Manure, Green manure) Municipal waste (Municipal Solid Waste - MSW) Waste Vegetable Oil | ||
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