Top 10 Biodiesel Trends 2018: what’s up with the world’s favorite advanced biofuel?

#7 Waste Makes Haste

The industry is making significant progress in the shirt to lower-cost feedstocks through technology development

Universal Biofuels produces biodiesel from lower quality, high Free Fatty Acid waste feedstock

In April, we reported that Aemetis, Inc. announced that its Universal Biofuels subsidiary completed the production of high quality distilled biodiesel from lower quality, high Free Fatty Acid (FFA) waste feedstock using the recently constructed pre-treatment unit at the biorefinery located on the East Coast of India. Using the lower cost, high FFA waste feedstock, the pre-treatment unit allows for production that meets or exceeds the biodiesel quality specifications of international fuel standards.

The production of high quality distilled biodiesel from high FFA waste feedstock was scheduled as a part of commissioning the pre-treatment unit for production of high quality distilled biodiesel for BP Singapore under a three-year supply agreement.  The India biorefinery is now scheduled to process the first production run of feedstock from BP Singapore that already has been delivered to the India plant.

https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2018/04/25/universal-biofuels-produces-biodiesel-from-lower-quality-high-free-fatty-acid-waste-feedstock/

JBS Biodiesel to invest $1.69 million to use waste animal fats for biodiesel

In February, we reported that JBS Biodiesel is set to invest $1.69 million in order to facilitate the use of chicken and pork fat as feedstock for biodiesel production. JBS is one of the world’s largest meat processors and has ready access to millions of kilos of potential waste fats for feedstock. Thanks to the B10 blending mandate currently in place, the company expects to produce 500 million liters of biodiesel in 2018/19. Production in 2018 should jump 20% from the year prior to 250 million liters.

https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2018/02/22/jbs-biodiesel-to-invest-1-69-million-to-use-waste-animal-fats-for-biodiesel/

EU-funded project looks to produce biodiesel and biomaterials from olive mill wastewater

In April, we reported that a European Union-funded project is helping researchers from Turkey, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Germany and Latvia to further develop technology to produce biofuels from olive oil processing wastewater. The Rhodolive project looks to ferment the organic load of olive mill wastewater that can then be turned into biodiesel, animal feed and higher value products such as intermediates for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors. A 30 liter pilot scale reactor will be developed during the 36-month project that will kick off in June.

https://staging.biofuelsdigest.com/2018/04/10/eu-funded-project-looks-to-produce-biodiesel-and-biomaterials-from-olive-mill-wastewater/