In Singapore, the newly opened Westin Hotel will use 8,000 metric tons of waste cooking oil from its kitchens as well as collected from other organizations around the city to produce biodiesel for powering its Jaguar limousines. The biodiesel will be refined initially at Alpha Biofuels’ plant in Tuas but a biodiesel production facility will […]
In Taiwan, Prof. (Emeritus) Aharon Gedanken from the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, who is currently a visiting chair professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, has developed a microwave-based process that transforms waste cooking oils into biodiesel in 10 seconds. The technology underlying the study is now in the process […]
In Hong Kong, following on the successful launch of ASB Biodiesel’s used cooking oil-based facility, the company is pushing the government to implement a biodiesel blending policy like other countries in the region. If it doesn’t happen, then its biodiesel and that of the other three producers in the country will be exported entirely to […]
In Spain, 25,000 students in Cataluña are collecting used cooking oil as part of a recycling program promoted by the Association of Oil for Biodiesel. What started as a pilot test in the town of Santpedor. Thanks to funding from the European Commission under the LIFE+ program, the project is being extended to nine school […]
In the UK, used cooking oil used to be expensive to dispose of but many businesses are capitalizing on having their own supply of waste cooking oil and are producing their own biodiesel, thereby benefiting from the cost savings of being able to run their own vehicles or generators on biodiesel, as well as the […]
In Florida, used cooking oil biodiesel producer FL Biofuels has shut down due to rising feedstock costs and doesn’t have immediate plans to reopen. It was costing upwards of $3 per gallon to produce the biodiesel, without taking into account payroll and other overheads. Potential investors are looking at the facility and are in discussions […]
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In Malaysia, palm oil futures are reversing their weakening trend on the back of higher demand for both biodiesel and cooking oil. The past few weeks saw futures slip more than 5%, following 24% in losses during the past year, but prices have strengthened in past days. Crude oil prices are on the rise following […]
In the UK, the Mayor of London wants to see 20% of the 250 million liters per year of fuel used to run the city’s buses to be biodiesel, and preferably from locally collected and processed used cooking oil. The city produces roughly 44 million liters of cooking oil per year. In order to help […]
In California, recycled cooking oil is anticipated to maintain its position as a significant biofuel input; however, the industry will continue to be exposed to external competition from alternative biofuel inputs, including soybeans and sugarcane. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has added a report on the Cooking Oil Recycling industry to its growing […]
