ARS – BIODIESEL

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS at the US government Agricultural Research Service have developed a way to eliminate costly conventional and costly oil extraction procedures in making biodiesel. The new method involves oil being created through a chemical reaction caused by incubating dried oilseed with methanol and sodium hydroxide, which are currently used to process extracted oil.



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