BIODIESEL is a clean burn fuel obtained from natural and renewable sources like vegetables . Mainly from soy beans, sunflower seeds, peanuts, castor oil plants, pequi fruit, babassu palm trees, cotton and colza seeds.
Also a renewable alternative like alcohol. Some of the BIODIESEL convenient characteristics are that dumping field residuals can be use helping to eliminate them reducing the atmospheric pollution. Becoming and alternative to diesel fuel from oil that it is not renewable.
BIODIESEL reduce 78% pollution like carbon dioxide that it is the responsible for the world green house effect that is changing weather conditions worldwide and reduce 98% of atmospheric sulfur pollution.
Since this is renewable fuel resource that on top of bringing environmental benefits, also allows job generating, on the crop collecting face as well as on the production process.
Developing agriculture on less favorable rural areas, that adding jobs also help to reduce the desertification of the land. And importantly reducing the country dependency and cost of crude oil imports.
BIODIESEL fuel is produce though a chemical reaction between vegetal oils and methanol and/or ethanol, this process is called “ transesterificação ”. On this process is possible also obtain approximately 10% glycerin as a sub-product of the BIODIESEL fuel.
Pure or mixed with other fuels, BIODIESEL fuel can be use on diesel engines. Also can be use as fuel for electricity generating. An important factor of Biodiesel fuel is that “NO” modifications need to be done on the diesel engines to run on it. The engines that run on vegetal oils make possible an 11% to 53% reduction on the emission of carbonic monoxide and without expelling sulfur dioxide, one of the responsible for acid rain. Brazil have a grate concern on reducing pollution this is how since 1997 the Brazilian diesel fuel is produce with less sulfur particles.