Arkansas researchers achieve biodiesel production breakthrough; fast, low-cost process yields over 90 percent from chicken fat, wood pulp by-products

In Arkansas, researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new, fast process for biodiesel that has recorded yields of more than 90 percent using chicken fat and converted tall oil fatty acids. The latter is a by-product of the wood-pulping industry.

Use of the low-cost feedstocks had been previously limited by long reaction times, and the amount of methanol reuqired by conventional processes.

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