Companies Collaborate to Develop Grease for Viable Biodiesel Feedstock

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Friday, May 30, 2008

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Companies Collaborate to Develop Grease for Viable Biodiesel Feedstock

US - Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. and Affordable Bio Feedstock are cooperating to come up with a process that utilises PetroLuxus products for the separation and recovery of oils from waste trap grease materials delivering an affordable, marketable grease feedstock for biodiesel producers.

According to Industry Week, rising commodity prices for feedstocks have greatly hindered the growth of the once burgeoning Biodiesel manufacturing industry and surging raw feedstock costs have halted the construction of new biodiesel plants. A potentially viable feedstock to replace current costly feedstocks is grease trap grease commonly known as "brown grease."

Today brown grease generators such as restaurants and food service facilities are burdened with the costly handling and disposal of this waste stream. These entities pay trap grease haulers to pump out grease traps and haul off for disposal in municipal landfill sites. The National Renewable Energy Lab estimates the U.S. generates 495 million gallons of waste grease trap material yearly -- which does not include millions of gallons of waste grease captured at municipal water treatment plants. Despite an abundant source of raw material for fuel, no viable technology has been developed to convert this trash into a marketable source of biodiesel feedstock due to chemical and engineering challenges.

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