Researchers have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process. Using simple catalysis, the researchers have been able to recycle a ...

CARL'S CORNER, Texas — The corn grows tall for miles around this truck stop, 80 miles south of Dallas, but it’s another crop, soybeans, that has engines revving in these parts. Since spring, when the ...

With gallon prices climbing dramatically, alternative fuels are starting to hold a greater appeal for a larger number of consumers. One alternative fuel is biodiesel, which is made from a renewable ...

Biodiesel is diesel fuel made from biomass rather than petroleum (petrodiesel). It’s used primarily in transportation, but it can also be used for home heating, electricity generation, and other uses.

It’s already possible to make biodiesel at home using waste oil–if you’re interested in setting up a system that competes with Breaking Bad’s meth labs for complexity. A new, compact, British-made ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have found a much better way to make biodiesel. Their new method could lower the cost and increase the energy efficiency of fuel production.

They're only 250 billionths of a meter in diameter. But fill them with the right chemistry and Iowa State scientists say the tiny nanospheres they've developed could revolutionize how biodiesel is ...

At this stage, it's looking more and more like only rich people can afford gas, and the situation is even worse if you need to fill up with diesel. The cost of diesel fuel rose above $5 per gallon in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- From french-fries to shuttle buses at Loyola University - that's the journey thousands of gallons of vegetable oil take every year in Chicago. Zach Waickman is a Senior Program ...

The group of engineers from Jamaica tours the Imperium Renewables biodiesel plant in Grays Harbor, Wash., dwarfed by giant tanks of virgin canola oil. (Photo: James Burke, Engineers Without Borders.) ...

Chemists have developed a way of purifying biodiesel made from vegetable oils, which is cheap, simple and low in toxicity. Researchers were able to remove glycerol, the main by-product of vegetable ...