All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got easier Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got easier 27/10/2020 | 2 MINS A global team including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology has developed a powerful, low-cost method for recycling used cooking oil and agricultural waste into biodiesel, and turning food scraps and plastic rubbish into high-value products. The method, published today in Nature Catalysis, harnesses a new type of ultra-efficient catalyst that can make low-carbon biodiesel and other valuable complex molecules out of diverse, impure raw materials, even when containing up to 50 per cent contaminants. The material is so tough that it could double the productivity of manufacturing processes for transforming waste into high-value chemical products. To make this possible, the team designed a porous ceramic sponge containing different specialised active sites within pores of different sizes. Molecules initially enter the material through large pores where they undergo a first chem
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got easier Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got easier 27/10/2020 | 2 MINS A global team including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology has developed a powerful, low-cost method for recycling used cooking oil and agricultural waste into biodiesel, and turning food scraps and plastic rubbish into high-value products.
The method, published today in Nature Catalysis, harnesses a new type of ultra-efficient catalyst that can make low-carbon biodiesel and other valuable complex molecules out of diverse, impure raw materials, even when containing up to 50 per cent contaminants.
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The material is so tough that it could double the productivity of manufacturing processes for transforming waste into high-value chemical products.
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To make this possible, the team designed a porous ceramic sponge containing different specialised active sites within pores of different sizes.
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