{"id":1725,"date":"2015-09-30T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2015-09-30T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:27:08","slug":"iranian-engineers-develop-bio-refinery-for-castor-without-need-for-fossil-based-methanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/09\/iranian-engineers-develop-bio-refinery-for-castor-without-need-for-fossil-based-methanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Engineers Develop Bio Refinery for Castor without Need for Fossil-Based Methanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Iran have developed a new method to produce biodiesel from cast<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1516 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/castor-oil-biodiesel-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"castor oil biodiesel\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>or oil without using extra petrochemical methanol. The new method uses bio refinery setup where bioethanol is used instead of fossil-based methanol to produce biodiesel.<\/p>\n<p>Results showed that the optimum biodiesel yield was 85% achieved at a temperature of 62.5\u00b0C with an ethanol: oil ratio of 0.29:1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2015\/09\/29\/iranian-engineers-develop-biorefinery-for-castor-without-need-for-fossil-based-methanol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Iran have developed a new method to produce biodiesel from castor oil without using extra petrochemical methanol. The new method uses bio refinery setup where bioethanol is used instead of fossil-based methanol to produce biodiesel. Results showed that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/09\/iranian-engineers-develop-bio-refinery-for-castor-without-need-for-fossil-based-methanol\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,26],"tags":[117,21,112,206],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-biodiesel","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-research","tag-castor-biodiesel-research","tag-castor-oil","tag-castor-oil-research-2","tag-castor-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}