Producing Biodiesel from Food Waste Like Pies and Chips

Greenergy a privately held company that supplies around twenty p.c of Britain's road fuel has begun producing biodiesel from food waste. And according to the corporation's CEO, pies and chips are the most highly effective foods for the method. Greenergy invested £50 million ( $77 million ) in its Immingham biodiesel production facility in Britain to permit it to produce the fuel thru the more difficult technique of processing cooking oils. The more typical method of processing rapeseed oil now accounts for about eighty % of biodiesel production in Europe. The new system takes fat rich solid foods that aren't fit for sale because they're past their sale date, misshapen or overcooked. The foodstuffs including pies, pasties and sausage rolls often contain twenty-five to thirty percent oil and fat, and otherwise would be sent to landfill or to be composted. The fats and oils are extracted and then purified by Greenergy.

They're then converted to biodiesel, mixed into diesel fuel and supplied nationally to gas stations.

Greenergy Boss man , Andrew Owens, asserted the possibilities of the new biodiesel production process was huge. GM Holden last year said its backing of Flex Fuel Australia, a new company that plans to convert one million tons of household and building waste into more than two hundred million litres of ethanol each year.