Neutral Fuels Produces First Dairy Waste-Based Biofuel
March 1, 2017http://biofuels-news.com/display_news/11920/neutral_fuels_first_in_the_world_to_created_dairy_wastebased_biofuel/
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The Dubai-based Neutral Fuels has just become the first company to produce commercial biofuel from dairy waste.
The new fuel has the same quality as the company's vegetable oil-derived biofuel, which has fuelled McDonald's UAE's logistics fleet for the past four years. Karl W Feilder, chairman and CEO at Neutral Fuels, said the project was inspired by Dubai's "Zero Waste by 2030" target.
The new fuel has the same quality as the company's vegetable oil-derived biofuel, which has fuelled McDonald's UAE's logistics fleet for the past four years. Karl W Feilder, chairman and CEO at Neutral Fuels, said the project was inspired by Dubai's "Zero Waste by 2030" target.
UAE is the second largest producer of dairy products in the Gulf region after Saudi Arabia and is expected to grow further through 2021. With UAE's annual fresh milk production of 167,000 tonnes, every 1% of waste that is processed into biofuel will result in 1.67 million litres of biofuel, which then can reduce the carbon footprint by 4,460 tonnes of carbon and equivalents. Adding the waste from making butter, cream and ghee, the volume of biofuel from the dairy industry could more than double.
Neutral Fuels is one of Dubai's most successful recycling companies, and its biorefinery is an example of a waste-to-energy plant. It also has ongoing research into new production techniques and feedstocks.
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