- Overview
- Power of biodiesel
- Why not use raw oil?
- Converting fats to biodiesel
- Biodiesel production process
- Esterification
- Transesterification
- Separation
- Water wash
- Water strip
- Antioxidant
- Methanol strip
- New washing and drying technique
- Adsorption and desorption beads
- Bob Elliott's Biodiesel Protocol
- Biodiesel analysis
- Contributors
Biodiesel Overview
In Australia, we grow and use many crops for biodiesel production, including canola (rapeseed), soybeans, poppy seed, waste oil from frying and waste tallow (animal fat) from meat works.
At Macquarie Oils in Tasmania, Tasmanian Alkaloids sells the waste poppy seed from production of pharmaceuticals to be pressed into oil that is converted to biodiesel in a small industrial plant.
Click on the interactive above and use the navigation on the left to find out more about the production of biodiesel.
