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Weird Feedstocks for Biodiesel

Last Updated: April 04, 2011

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Released April 4, 2011

Moscow, ID -- Over the past 24 years, the University of Idaho biodiesel lab has made biodiesel from a variety of unusual feedstocks, including oil from candlenut and croton from Africa, avocado from Mexico, karanja from India, hemp from Canada, algae from California, peanuts from Georgia, and coffee grounds from our local Starbucks. Probably the strangest feedstock we’ve ever worked with was the fat from black soldier fly larvae. Sometimes we are commissioned to analyze biodiesel from a particular feedstock by a company, but sometimes it’s just plain curiosity.

Read the complete blog entry at the University of Idaho's Biodiesel Education Program web site.

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