Petroleum Processing and Research

Biofuels & Biodiesel

Biofuels can be obtained through biological processes such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion. Biofuels can be derived directly from plants or indirectly from agricultural, domestic or industrial wastes. Renewable biofuels generally involve contemporary carbon fixation. Biodiesel is produced from oils or fats by the process of transesterification.  In its pure form Biodiesels can be used as a fuel for vehicles, but it is usually used as a diesel which is helpful in reducing levels of particulates, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons from diesel-powered vehicles. Biodiesel is the most commonly used biofuel in Europe. Biofuels are a hot ecological theme right now. The part of the biofuel business is not to supplant oil diesel totally, but rather to help in making an adjusted vitality arrangement with the most advantage. Biodiesel is one of a few conceivable fills intended to augment the handiness of oil, and the life span and cleanliness of diesel motors. Biofuels carbon impartial growing a tree and after that consuming it as a biofuel doesn’t add any carbon dioxide to the air or exacerbate a dangerous atmospheric deviation at any extent. Biodiesel is intended to be utilized as a part of standard diesel motors and along these lines particular from the vegetable and waste oils used to fuel changed over diesel motors. Biodiesel can be utilized alone, or mixed with petrodiesel in any extents.