Four companies, two Japanese and two Chinese, have gone quartersies on a new plant to refine cooking grease into biodiesel. Unlike the kitchen-grease cars that we've reported on in the past, where the oil is merely filtered and held in a special tank, the biodiesel created by the new plant in the Shanghai area will be added to petroleum-based diesel as a way to stretch fuel supplies and decrease diesel prices. The plant will have the capacity to process 40 tons of grease into 17.3 tons of fuel per day.

Restaurant Grease to Fuel Cars [Shanghai Daily]

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