Biotech Updates

Waste Vegetable Oil and Animal Fat for Biodiesel Processing

February 23, 2007
http://news.com.com/Fast-food+fat--future+fuel+for+cars/2100-1008_3-6157412.html
http://www.bioilcorporation.com/

Waste vegetable oil and animal fat from food service industries can be considered as an untapped source for biofuels. Through a process called “transesterification”, these can be converted to “cleaner-burning” biodiesel. BiOil, a biodiesel company in California plans to collect some of the estimated 3.9 billion gallons of waste vegetable oil from fast food eateries by building a national network of disposal centers. The collected oil would then be refined and processed to biodiesel and sold to trucking companies and drivers..