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Scientist named E.Duffy and J.Patrick first experimented on vegtable oil. It was many years before the first diesiel engine was made.
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Rudolf Diesel made a prime model, a single 10 ft (3m) of iron cylinder with a fly wheel as its base. It ran on its own for the first time in Augsburg,Germany. Running on nothing but peanut oil.
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Dielsel made a speech on how vegetable oils for ingines fuels may seem insignficant today but such oil may become important as petroleum and coal-tar products of the present time.
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After Dr. Diesel petroleum became widely avaliable in variety of forms like diesel fuel.
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1920-1930 these countries and later during the World War II have been using vegetable oil as diesel -Belguim, France,Italy,the United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Brazil,Argentina,Japan,and China were reported to have tested and used vegetable oil.
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A guy named G.Chavanne of the University of Brussles (Belguim) was granted a patent for a (a change in transformation of vegetable oils and fuel) to spilt the fatty acids from the glycerol by replacing glyrecol with short linear alchols. This is known as Biodiesel.
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A Brazilian scientist invented and submittied for patent the first industrial process for the production of biodiesel.
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A research has been done into the use of trasesterified sunflower oil, and refinig it to diesel fuel standards in south Africa.
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The process for producing fuel-quility, engine-tested biodiesel was completed and published internationally,
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The first industrial-scale plant.
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With a capacity of 30,000 tons of rapeseeds per annum.
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A lot of plants were opened in many European countries including the Czech Repulic,Germany, and Sweden.
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The Austrian Biofuels Institute had identified 21 countries with commercial Biodesel project. 100% Biodiesel is now available at many normal service stations across Europe.
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A city called Novia Sotia decided to update to its bus system to only using fish-oil based biodiesel. at first the buses had some mechanical issues but after 2 years of refinig. It has worked great since.
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Minnesota became the first U.S state to mandate that all diesel fuel is sold in the state contain part Biodiesel, requiring a content of at least 2% biodiesel.
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Mcdonalds in UK announced it would start producing biodiesel from the waste oil byproduct of its restuarants. This would be used to run its fleet
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The Royal train completed its first ever journey run on 100% biodiesel fuel supplied by Green Fuels. Ever since that day the train has only operated on 100% Biodiesel.
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Disney tested Biodiesel on a train in 2007, and decided to use on all thier trains from there own cooking oil. This is a change from running the trains on soy-based biodiesel.
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United Airlines flew the world's first commercial aviation flight on microbially-derived biofuel using Solajet. 40% Solajet and 60% petroleum.
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The renewable fuel standerd called for 7.5 billion US gallons of biofuels used annually by 2012 and this is expanding markets
