After exploiting and exploring the agricultural lands and crops for bio-diesel, it is now the turn for the poultry and farm byproducts to serve the environment. Making bio-diesel from fat is not a new concept, but commercializing it will not just solve the problems related to greenhouse gas emissions, but also relief the landfills from the fatty rots discarded by the beef, poultry and pork butchers.
To make this fat-based renewable diesel fuel, Oil company ConocoPhillips will be partnering with meat producer Tyson Foods Inc. The transportation fuel the two companies will be making is said to be using beef, pork and poultry byproduct fat.
While ConocoPhillips plans to make capital expenditures for producing the fuel in several of its refineries, Tyson will put efforts for capital improvements this summer. This will help it start preprocessing animal fat from some of its North American rendering facilities later in the year.
According to ConocoPhillips, ‘The fuel will be meeting all federal standards for ultra-low-sulfur diesel.’
It can very well be sensed that if such a thing happens, and work out successfully, ‘transportation’ can be taken off from the list of ‘major greenhouse gas producing sources’.
But, to place the concept successfully in the global market, the price of the fat-based bio-fuel needs to be kept reasonable as well.
