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Sugar catalysts can turn waste vegetable oil into biodiesel

Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 posted by posted by Ecacofonix @ 3:22 AM

A sweet future for biodiesel

26 March 2007

Sugar catalysts can turn waste vegetable oil into biodiesel, researchers have revealed.

Min-Hua Zong at the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, and colleagues have used a sugar catalyst to prepare biodiesel from waste vegetable oil. Sugar catalysts, made by the sulfonation of partially carbonized D-glucose, have previously been used for making biodiesel from new vegetable oils, but had never been successfully used in making biodiesel from waste oil.

Read the full report from here @ Chemical Science

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