BIODIESEL MANUFACTURING
BIODIESEL PROCESSING TO CREATE BIOFUEL
Biodiesel is a powerful biodegradable fuel that comes from fats, including used cooking grease from animal or vegetable oils. Biodiesel is renewable, safer for the planet and widely available to consumers, making it a particularly eco-friendly resource. At Baker Commodities, we create biofuel at our biodiesel processing plant and provide rendered fat ingredients to biodiesel processing plants around the world.
YELLOW GREASE, TALLOW AND LARD
Baker Commodities provides a few different materials used in biodiesel production. These include:
- Yellow grease: Produced from recycled vegetable oil from deep fryers
- Tallow and lard: Produced from animal rendering processes for various by-products
Yellow grease, lard and tallow are truly recycled and renewable alternative fuels. These fuels are highly sustainable because they use recycled materials as a base instead of relying on virgin materials. Supplies of biodiesel can be renewed indefinitely because rendered materials and oil/grease are domestic co-products of the growing U.S. animal agriculture sector.
HOW IT WORKS
Once the raw materials are cleaned up, they are pumped into a biodiesel processor where our operators work 24/7 to manufacture high-quality biodiesel fuel. The raw ingredients are turned into biodiesel through a chemical process called “transesterification” that replaces the glycerin with three methanol molecules that attach to the fatty acids from the fat molecule. This separates out glycerin for use in soaps and other products and leaves behind Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME), which is the technical term for biodiesel.
Grease.org Marketplace
Grease.org’s used cooking oil data from local restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, casinos and other industrial kitchens around the world.
Grease sourced biofuel provides communities with an environmentally sound vehicle fuel source, produced from renewable or local recycled sources at a reputable biodiesel processing plant. Grease.org commercial Grease products make high-quality biodiesel, which fuels diesel vehicles with little or no conversion, from waste cooking oil collected from area restaurants.
