The biodiesel product either in pure form or blended with petro-diesel could be used as a substitute for conventional petro-diesel used by trucks and diesel generators within palm oil.
How to produce biodiesel from palm oil. Palm oil coconut oil tallow and lard are also summer fuels with high melting points. This national interest in biodiesel is in stark contrast with Europes current concern about palm oil in biofuels. In 2018 65 of all the palm oil imported into the EU was used for energy.
As converting a hectare of palm oil into biodiesel saves approximately six tonnes of CO 2 emissions annually it takes 80 to 150 years of production to offset the initial emissions released from deforestation. Biodiesel is commonly produced by the transesterification of the vegetable oil or animal fat feedstock. Malaysian palm biodiesel is therefore a sustainable energy.
Palm biodiesel produced in Malaysia is from palm oil which is produced in a sustainable manner and their use conserve our crude petroleum reserve and contributes to our own economy. Palm oil imports were used for biodiesel. This makes EU drivers the biggest users of palm oil in Europe5.
In 2016 48 of all the imports were used in transport. Palm oil biodiesel is an alternative to petroleum fuel. As the world continues to seek alternatives to fossil fuels many products have been evaluated but few are as efficient to produce as palm oil biodiesel.
Current certification schemes cant guarantee sustainability of the. The alkali catalyst of potassium hydroxide had been used to carry the transestrication process with methanol. Drivers in Europe are forced most of the time without their knowledge to fill up their diesel cars with palm oil biodiesel.
We believe sustainably produced palm oil. The acid value of palm oil was found to be 0957 which enabled direct alkaline transesterification. Europeans are increasingly eating less and less palm oil and instead are inadvertently burning more and more in cars and trucks.