The process for renewable fuels
Making bio-products from cooking oil requires a concentrated effort on behalf of all businesses involved in the use of cooking oils.
Cooking oils, including soy, vegetable, canola and animal fats can be used to make renewable fuels – a much better alternative to petroleum fuels for the transport and machinery industries.
Used cooking oil contains many free fatty acids (FFAs). Fatty acid particles detach from the rest of the molecule and float freely. These FFAs can’t be converted into renewable fuels directly.
Scanline filters the used cooking oil and pre-treats it to make the FFAs usable.
From here, the pre-treated UCO can be put through a hydrotreatment, a chemical process that turns
waste cooking oil into renewable diesel.
Hydrogen is used to remove oxygen from, for example, triglyceride vegetable oil molecules and to split the triglyceride into three separate chains, thus creating hydrocarbons that are similar to existing fossil diesel fuel.
Renewable diesel is suitable for use in vehicles, machinery and farm equipment and is much cleaner burning. It is similar in chemical composition to fossil diesel but emits fewer greenhouses gas (GHG) emissions on a lifecycle basis.
Making animal feed from cooking oil
The ARA and SFMCA recommend that used cooking oils should only be sourced from establishments that comply with the ‘National Standard for Recycling of Used Cooking Fats and Oils Intended for Animal Feeds.’
We hold licenses and accreditation with the ARA, EPA and ISCC for all states in which we operate, and our processing operations operate under a National Standard certified management system.
Scanline’s feed grade products – UCO Veg Feed and UCO Mixed Feed – comply with Feedsafe stockfeed manufacturing guidelines. We place the highest integrity on processing used cooking oil for the animal feed market.
We understand the benefits of incorporating professionally and adequately treated waste cooking oils into pig and poultry feed.
The product is highly nutritious and, as a recycled by-product, using refined waste cooking oil takes advantage of a high volume resource that would otherwise end up as landfill.
When processed correctly, the product offers farmers less reliance on corn and helps to produce sufficient energy from less consumable mass. This is especially valuable during hot weather seasons when the animals eat less.
We need you to make an impact
Are you ready to contribute to a greener environment? Let us collect your used cooking oil how it suits you – free of hassle. Contact us today to arrange your oil collection service.
