Containing no petroleum, biodiesel can be blended with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel mixture. It is produced from raw domestic materials or resources to create a clean burning alternative to petroleum diesel. It is used in diesel (compression ignition) engines that need little or no modification. Making a biodiesel fuel requires a certain knowledge [...]

While there are many reported advantages for the use of biodiesel fuels, there are also many disadvantages, with numerous problems or faults being reported by users. This is in addition to the problem of the cost of using biodiesel due to it being so much more expensive than regular petroleum diesel. One of the main [...]

Obtaining fuel from a fat is not by any means a new process. In 1853, a couple of scientists named J. Patrick and E. Duffy performed the first experimental vegetable oil transesterification, many years prior to a diesel engine actually becoming fully functional. Records indicate however, that the first vehicle to run on biodiesel fuel [...]

Nationwide average prices for alternative fuels and conventional fuels vary from state to state. With biodiesel fuels, a lot depends on the concentration of the mix; the higher the mix of biodiesel to regular petroleum diesel, the higher the price at the pump. In April of 2009, The United States Department of Energy reported that [...]

The use of Biodiesel Fuels in our cars could possibly be speeding up the destruction of the world’s rainforests, which in turn could result in greenhouse gas emissions being even higher than burning regular petroleum diesel. In the United Kingdom alone, in 2009 in excess of 1.3 million hectares of arable land was harvested in [...]

The benefits of using biodiesel fuel in cars are varied and are many. They cross a wide spectrum of reasons and opinions, and most are based on fact, although there are some benefits that stem from a more personal perspective of car owners. People change to biodiesel because they want to help the environment, the [...]

Even though biofuel is commonly referred to as a liquid fuel derived from plant matter and waste, there are other solid versions that might be even better recognized by people. An example of a liquid fuel would be a biodiesel fuel and bioalcohol, whereas a solid biofuel would be for example, grass cuttings and wood [...]

It has been said that the very first diesel engine was designed to run on biodiesel fuel. The inventor of that first diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel, designed a simple machine which ran on its own power for the first time on the 10th of August, 1893 in Augsburg, Germany. This event is commemorated on the [...]

As diesel becomes more and more expensive owing to a) governmental annual tax rises b) the increasing cost of fuel owing to its scarcity (at least we are led to believe) it’s even more apparent that we need to use the fuel better, in a more efficient and less poluting manner. Big oil companies have [...]

Since the continuous price increases of normal diesel there has been great interest and desire to make fuels from waste oils. This so-called Biodiesel is derived from oils used such as vegetable, or animal fats. Diesel from fossil sources is ever increasing in price owing to government taxation. In the prodcutio of biodiesel there are [...]