From animal to diesel
Environmental benefits
Using waste products

Biodiesel has many environmental benefits

  • Most people know that diesel engines are more energy-efficient and therefore run more miles to the gallon than petrol-driven vehicles. This also applies when you add biodiesel.

  • Biodiesel produced from animal fat from slaughterhouse waste has a positive CO2 replacement. CO2 emissions are reduced more when a car runs on biodiesel from slaughterhouse waste fat than, for example, biofuel produced from food products: The use of agricultural land for biofuel production precludes the use of the area for other purposes (e.g. food or forestry). This means that we have to compensate by making land available elsewhere for food production. The CO2 accounts for biofuels produced from plant/food products seldom provide major net savings on CO2. In fact, they sometimes cause increased emissions.

    Animal fat from slaughterhouse waste can replace petrodiesel without the need to find other agricultural land on which to grow crops. At the same time, the correlation between the energy in the fuel itself and the energy used to produce biodiesel is much higher than in the production of bioethanol. Net CO2 emission (per unit of fuel) is therefore reduced more when you run on second generation biodiesel than bioethanol or first generation biodiesel.
  • When animal fat and organic residue, such as waste water sludge and manure, are used to make biodiesel, the total quantity of waste is reduced.

  • Biodiesel is biodegradable and non-toxic.

  • Biodiesel has good lubrication and combustion qualities.


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