Vehicles powered by diesel contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making the journey toward decarbonization a tough road. According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, in ...

At many biodiesel plants, soybean oil accounts for as much as 80 percent of the operating cost. Wake Forest's Terrafinity project doesn't depend on soybean oil. It relies on a method that, like making ...

The U.S. is on pace to surpass 5 billion gallons of biodiesel and renewable diesel consumption for the first time ever. According to the Clean Fuels Alliance, 2024 saw increased efforts from states to ...

Biodiesel is all around us -- in our ferries, buses, garbage trucks, passenger cars, tractors, Army trucks, sailboats and more -- yet surveys show that only one in four people knows about this ...

Kevin Lofgren in the lab holding a flask containing the pure biodiesel product made with the process described in the journal Energy & Fuels. UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to ...

Biodiesel is produced from oil, whether it be recycled waste or newly harvested soybean oil, through a process called transesterification, whereby glycerin is removed from the oil by combining it with ...

(Bloomberg) -- The White House is gearing up to finally announce its new rules on biofuel blending, critical support for the industry that’s underpinned American farming over the past two decades. But ...

WALTERS -- Rest easy, because that chemistry kit in the barn of Thad Doye's farm is not what you might be thinking. Get your mind off the moonshine and into the healthy sunrise of energy independence.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Reuters) - Stagnating global palm oil production and higher biodiesel mandates are likely to curb supplies of the world's most used vegetable oil this year, setting the stage ...