Used Cooking Oil
Description:
Used Cooking Oil (UCO) is a sustainable raw material made of food industry by-products. It is also known as waste cooking oil, beacause it refers to edible oils and fats’ leftovers used for cooking or frying in food industry, restaurants, and households, etc.
UCO can be reused in a few different applications, such as soap making, lamp oil, animal feed and biodiesel. DYM Resources is concentrated on supplying used cooking oil to biodiesel enterprises. Such biodiesel products as UCOME and HVO comply with nowadays green energy standards like European Commission’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which covers GHG emissions, biodiversity, and carbon stock.
UCO (User Cooking Oil) Specification ; Free fatty acids, Max 5% ; Content of moisture, Max 1% ; Sulphur content, Max 30 ppm ; Share of unsaponifiable, Max 1%.
Therefore, a mixture of waste cooking oil and castor oil can produce higher yield biodiesel. The test results showed biodiesel yield with 1:2 oil volume ratios of 99.20% and 2:1 (vol/vol) of 83.69%.
