Biofuels and MST Biodiesel is a nontoxic, biodegradable, clean burning fuel for diesel engines made from domestically produced, renewable fats and oils such as soybean oil or recycled cooking oils. Biodiesel has no sulfur or aromatic compounds and meets the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ultra low sulfur diesel fuel.

Biodiesel can be used in existing diesel engines without modification and burns substantially cleaner than petroleum based diesel fuel, and is a powerful option for improving our environment. Through a process called transesterification, oils and fats are reacted with methanol and a base catalyst to produce fatty acid methyl esters (biodiesel) with glycerin as a co-product.
The U.S. consumes over 170 billion gallons of petroleum fuel annually. Of this amount, petroleum diesel accounts for about 40%, or 65 billion gallons. The 2005 Energy Policy Act requires that the amount of renewable fuels blended with gasoline increase from 4 billion gallon in 2006 to 7.5 billion gallons in 2012. Microwave Separation Technology (MST) Benefits:
AgriBioFuels will exploit advanced, Microwave Separation Technology to increase the capability of its facilities to make biodiesel from the lowest cost feed stocks available at any given time. In addition, MST will allow AgriBioFuels to maximize its process yields and plant production capacities to achieve the lowest possible production costs. Utilization of MST will be central to the company’s strategy to handle non-virgin waste materials such as animal fats and cooking greases. AgriBioFuels believes its use of MST will help make it a favored partner for both feed stock suppliers and biodiesel product consumers.
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