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Energy singularity means a point where our source of energy is almost infinite, coming from the renewable sources and completely accessible to everyone on the planet.

17 May 2008

New Biodiesel and Glycerine Process by Nippon Shokubai

Japanese chemical producer, Nippon Shokubai has developed a new mainstream catalytic process to produce biodiesel and glycerine that generates much lesser waste than current technology.

Nippon Shokubai's new method process technology also reduces the cost to build and maintain the plant by as much as 10%, and also improved the ratio of converting vegetable oils into fatty acid ester, a biodiesel fuel, by 3% and on top of that, the byproduct glycerine produced by this method is very high in purity (over 98wt%). At 98% wt purity, the glycerin could be used as a feedstock for other chemicals without any refining.

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