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2. Vegetable oil fuel - Wikipedia

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   Vegetable oil can be used as an alternative fuel in diesel engines and in heating oil burners. When vegetable oil is used directly as a fuel, in either modified or unmodified equipment, it is referred to as straight vegetable oil (SVO) or pure plant oil (PPO). Conventional diesel engines can be modified to help ensure that the viscosity of the ...

3. Vegetable oils as alternative energy - Wikipedia

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   The German government has a Biofuels Roadmap in which they expect to reach 10% biofuels by 2010 with the diesel 10% coming from fuel made from vegetable oil. [18] From 2005 to 2007 a number of types of vegetable oil have doubled in price. The rise in vegetable oil prices is largely attributed to biofuel demand. [19]

4. Yellow grease - Wikipedia

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   Refined used cooking oil is what is left after separation of solids and moisture from yellow grease. Refined used cooking oil is the base for producing biodiesel and renewable diesel. [9] Refined used cooking oil then goes through either to transesterification to produce biodiesel or hydrodeoxygenation to produce renewable diesel.

5. Hydrotreated vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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   Renewable diesel from vegetable oil is a growing substitute for petroleum. [14] California fleets used over 200 million US gallons (760,000 m 3 ) of renewable diesel in 2017. The California Air Resources Board predicts that over 2 billion US gallons (7,600,000 m 3 ) of fuel will be consumed in the state under its Low Carbon Fuel Standard ...

6. Biofuel - Wikipedia

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   Straight unmodified edible vegetable oil is generally not used as fuel, but lower-quality oil has been used for this purpose. Used vegetable oil is increasingly being processed into biodiesel, or (more rarely) cleaned of water and particulates and then used as a fuel. The IEA estimates that biodiesel production used 17% of global vegetable oil ...

7. List of vegetable oils - Wikipedia

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   Also used in fuel industry as bio-fuel. Safflower oil, until the 1960s used in the paint industry, now mostly as a cooking oil. [13] Sesame oil, cold pressed as light cooking oil, hot pressed for a darker and stronger flavor. [14] Soybean oil, produced as a byproduct of processing soy meal. [15]