Posts Tagged ‘feedstock’

jatropha biodiesel

The jathropha plant is a good example of a biodiesel feedstock. One big advantage is that it can grow on degraded soils and enables other types of agriculture. Jatropha has many advantages over other flora that can thrive under adverse circumstances. It is not eaten by most animals and is a vigorous, drought and pest resistant plant and when planted as a fence repels rodents and has phyto-protective action against pestilence and pathogens and thus provides additional protection to inter cropped plants. Cattle have been found to graze in the space between Jatropha rows in large plantations. Jatropha plantations also attract breeding birds and honey collecting bees. They are not harmful to people looking after them or handling their seeds or seed cake.

biodiesel oil

biodiesel can be made from various types of feedstock, which includes organic oils made from vegetables, palm oil, coconut and many more feedstocks. The business secret is to find the most economic type of feedstock for your biodiesel production.

biodiesel production basics

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond: A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farm

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond aims to separate fact from fiction and to educate potential home, farm, and cooperative manufacturers on the economic production of quality biodiesel from both waste and virgin oil feedstock. The book includes:

  • detailed processes and equipment required to produce biodiesel fuel that meets North American standards
  • how farmers can use excess oilseed as a feedstock for biodiesel production
  • the use of the co-byproduct glycerin in the making of soap
  • a guide to numerous reference materials and a list of supplier data

This is North America’s definitive guide to responsibly producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil while minimizing your environmental footprint in the process.