Special Report

Texas biodiesel maker uses beef tallow

Although most biodiesel in the U.S. starts out as soybeans, that’s not the case with biodiesel coming from the Direct Fuels plant just outside of Dallas in Euless, Texas. Biodiesel Operations Director Mark Farrer explains that beef tallow, a plentiful commodity in Texas cattle country, is the preferred feed stock here. Allowed to come to room temperature, tallow firms up, so it’s better suited to the normally warmer climate of north Texas. Farrer concedes that the plant doesn’t make a big dent in the Texas tallow supply, but when it’s running at capacity, it’s capable of producing ten million gallons of biodiesel annually.

AUDIO: Mark Farrer (2 min. MP3)

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  What chemicals need to use to make biodiesel from tallow. There are some video or book to teach me to make biodiesel from tallow

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  What chemicals I need to use to make biodiesel from tallow. Please let me know if There are some video or book to teach me how to make biodiesel from tallow.

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