New Technology for High Quality Biodiesel

Chemically speaking, biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, propyl or ethyl) esters. Biodiesel is typically made by chemically reacting lipids (animal fats, vegetable oils or recycled restaurant greases) with an alcohol, and can be used (depending on how it is processed) for heating or transportation fuel in automobiles, trains or airplanes.


Biodiesel works just as well as normal diesel fuel, but the combustion process expels lower concentrations of toxic emissions. Biodiesel increases lubrication of ultra low sulfur petroleum diesel, which reduces wear, increases engine life and cleans injectors, fuel pumps and lines.

Biodiesel producers worldwide are looking for ways to lower feedstock cost, increase processing flexibility, increase biodiesel yield, improve biodiesel and glycerol purity and make biodiesel processing simpler and safer. Treatment steps play a large role in the purity of biodiesel and in the overall price of biodiesel production-and thus the overall cost of biodiesel to the end user. Improvements in these purification techniques help producers deliver better-quality biodiesel, enabling the industry to expand its share of the fuels market.