Demonstration of the production of bio-diesel from tallow and recovered vegetable oil

Project Information

BIODIEPRO

Grant agreement ID: 13541

Project closed

Start date 7 November 2005

End date 30 June 2006

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Total cost € 17 438 593,00

EU contribution € 3 150 000,00

Coordinated by

ARGENT GROUP EUROPE LIMITED
United Kingdom

Objective

Establish first European large-scale biodiesel manufacturing facility using recovered vegetable oil and tallow , for sale to oil companies Control sulphur levels in saturated fat derived biodiesel to 10ppm and meet proposed fuel quality standards Research safe use of biodiesel production co-products and use of trans-esterification process to produce useful products Demonstrate environmentally sensitive solution for safe disposal of animal by-products Create new supply chain linking rendering plants, producers and collectors of waste vegetable oils with fuel supply/distribution industry.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture › horticulture › vegetable growing
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels
• engineering and technology › industrial biotechnology › biomaterials › biofuels

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

Fifth Energie C
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Funding Scheme

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Coordinator

ARGENT GROUP EUROPE LIMITED

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 5th Floor - 9 Hatton Street ; LONDON ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

ARGENT GROUP

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: XXX ; LONDON
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Heinrichstrasse 28 ; GRAZ
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTE FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT GRAZ

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Inffeldgasse 25 ; GRAZ
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT GRAZ

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Petersgasse 12 ; GRAZ
• Total cost: No data