Plant Oils as Fuels

Plant Oils as Fuels

• Vegetable oils can be used to produce fuels
• Vegetable oils produce a lot of energy so it is suitable
• Biodiesel is a particularly useful fuel made from vegetable oils
• It has similar properties to ordinary fuel; it burns the same way so you can use it to fuel a diesel engine
• Most diesel engines can burn 100% biodiesel but it's usually mixed with ordinary diesel
• Engines burning biodiesel produces 90% as much power as engines burning ordinary diesel

Biodiesel is renewable

• It comes from plant crops which can be planted and harvested every year
• You can always keep making biodiesel
• Ordinary diesel is made by the distillation of crude oil
• Crude oil was formed millions of years ago, it'll take…