India approves GMO rapeseed: green light in India! Authorization came from the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, India’s biotechnology regulatory body. The GMO rapeseed will be the country’s first GMO crop and was approved 15 years after its inventor, Deepak Pental, a bioscientist at Delhi University’s Centre for genetic manipulation of crop plants, hybridized it in […]
Bio-oil to heat houses
Bio-oil to heat houses sustainably is a very important project to make our planet better. Perfecting bio-oil production to heat houses sustainably. EU funded the project because it is one of the goals it has been strongly pursuing for some time. The reason is that if heating efficiency is not achieved, it will be very […]
Palm Oil and Environment: the problem and the solution
An analysis on the implication of palm oil and the environment History of Palm oil Palm oil and the environment represents a significant issue that is currently popular among experts and those interested. In particular, the oil palm is a very efficient plant. It has an almost constant fruiting capacity throughout the year with very […]
Soybean oil as a natural remedy against mealybug
Soybean oil is a fat of vegetable origin obtained from the seeds of Glycine and it has a lot of properties (like vitamin) and many uses. In the fall season, it helps to shelter plants from frost and wind and, more importantly, to cope with problems such as mealybug due to its invigorating action. There […]
Oil or butter? Which one should you choose?
Oil or butter? There is indecision… This article will address an effective issue that is creating confusion among people: Oil or butter? In fact, that is an essential question that many people ask themselves whenever they have to choose between the two of them. In particular, when cooking, we tend to use more butter than […]
Coconut oil manufacturing process
From palm to can What is the manufacturing process of coconut oil? Where does it come from? Many products in the food industry are consumed without asking where they come from and how they were produced. This is irresponsible behaviour that harms both our health and food producers who are committed to quality and sustainability. […]
Olive Sound: oil extraction innovation
Olive Sound is the last oil extraction innovation. It’s the acronym for the Horizon 2020 European Project aimed at developing a high throughput oil extraction plant, the Sono-Heat-Exchanger. It combines ultrasound and heat exchange with the aim of breaking, through a radical innovation model, the historical paradigm that sees inversely correlated oil yield and content […]
Record soya oil prices thanks to renewables
When we talk about record soya oil prices, we cannot help but think that they reached an all-time high last year, driven by growing demand from the biofuels sector. In the US, they rose by more than a third at the beginning of June 2021. But let’s take a look at why this price increase […]
Olive oil extraction techniques for an effective result!
There are 3 olive oil extraction techniques that are generally adopted to achieve a complete processing process: by pressure (classic, discontinuous method),by centrifugation (modern, continuous method), and finally, percolation by selective filtration (modern, continuous method). Olive oil extraction: pressure method When considering the olive oil extraction techniques, it is necessary to outline that the more traditional system […]
Clean oils being passed off as UCO in biodiesel
Legambiente has uncovered a new fake renewable source in biofuels: clean oils used as uco in biodiesel. These are vegetable oils, classified as UCO, oils used for cooking, but which never saw any frying. But they ended up in biodiesel subsidized and paid for as waste. This is about 100,000 tons out of a total of […]