The new method could help slash carbon emissions in hard to reach industries like aviation and road haulage.
The new method could help slash carbon emissions in hard to reach industries like aviation and road haulage.
A new way to produce fuels made from leftover fat can create biofuel as effective as diesel 1000-times more efficiently than current methods a new study has suggested.
Published in Green Chemistry, researchers from King’s College London and the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory used enzymes to break down fatty acids in cooking oil into alkenes, the building block of fuels like petrol and diesel. The scientists hope that the new renewable fuel, which can be made using leftover food waste, can cut fossil fuel usage.
Biofuels are a wide variety of energy sources made from renewable organic material that comes from plants or animals, like vegetable oil. Those that can directly replace petrol or diesel in conventional combustion engines have been touted as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, with fuels derived from food waste cutting greenhouse gases by up to 94%.
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