Recycling and disposal of waste oils from kitchen and biodiesel selling have been a  problem for the city.Shanghai is trying to get B5 biodiesel into more than 200 gas     stations  this year.By then, more than 30,000 tons of waste cooking oil from Shanghai will  be   consumed by social vehicles every year.At the same time, due to some     biodiesel characteristics … Read More

In a proud moment for the Indian aviation industry, a blend of biofuel and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) was used to propel a SpiceJet Bombardier Q-400 flight between Dehradun and Delhi. SpiceJet’s Chairman and Managing Director Ajay Singh said the 43-minute flight was a technological demonstration that bio jet fuel could be used in flights, and claimed … Read More

In Zimbabwe, after focusing on R&D for the past dozen years, the government is jumping back into jatropha as a solution for fuel shortages with a new facility and 6,000 ha of plantations. Finealt Engineering, part of the Ministry of Energy and Power Development, has gotten biodiesel production costs down to 97 cents per liter but … Read More

KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia’s plans for more widespread use of biodiesel could reduce its exports and global palm oil supplies, leaving Malaysia to fill in the gap in the export market, said industry analyst James Fry today. “That (Indonesia’s biodiesel mandate) is quite a significant help towards taking surplus palm oil out of the market, and that … Read More

London — Irish biodiesel sales in July fell by 4.7% compared with the same month a year earlier to 14.8 million liters, as ethanol sales dropped 10% to 4.45 million liters, according to the latest data from the National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA). Biodiesel sales also lost 1.5% on the month, as diesel sales tumbled 12% … Read More

  In the past few years, the Chinese government has paid much attention to the development of biodiesel,However, faced with the reality of the market, biodiesel enterprises are still struggling. Hainan province is one of the national pilot projects to promote biodiesel and it is the first province to sell biodiesel in China.But almost all gas stations in Hainan … Read More

The US National Biodiesel Board has reiterated the industry’s strong support for the passage of a new Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the Farm Bill) that includes funding for programmes that support biodiesel, in a letter to the Conference Committee working to finalise the legislation. The 2018 Farm Bill would lay out … Read More

All diesel vehicles in the City of Vancouver’s fleet will be fuelled by 100% renewable diesel, according to a statement. The City has signed a new supply contract with integrated energy company, Suncor. “This new contract concretely demonstrates our commitment to greening our operations and deriving 100% of our energy from renewable sources,” said Jerry Dobrovolny, … Read More

Researchers claim to have found a way to protect yeast from damage inflicted by pretreatment chemicals in the biofuel production process. Pretreatment chemicals are used in biofuel facilities to accelerate the breakdown of plant material, however, these chemical are sometimes poisonous to the yeasts that turn the plant sugars into fuel. In a study published … Read More

In a bid to reduce its crude oil imports over the next four years, India is set to invest heavily in biofuels. Various media outlets are reporting that on 10 August, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the plans to build the country’s biofuel capacity through 100 billion rupees of investment. India is one of … Read More