UGA, Local Firm Work for Cleaner, Cheaper Biodiesel Production

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A newly efficient method of producing biodiesel fuel, developed by Monroe-based Down to Earth Energy in a partnership with the University of Georgia, could eventually revolutionize the biodiesel industry, according to the project’s researchers.

The under-development production method is more environmentally friendly than current ones, reusing the catalysts necessary for production rather than consuming them and producing waste, according to Dan Geller, a professor in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The collaboration on the project, which is coordinated by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, involves both Geller, whose research focuses on biodiesel fuel, and Dr. James Kastner, whose specialty is biochemical catalysts and serves as the university’s principal investigator for the project.

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