- Biodiesel is biodegradable, low in emissions, and made from sustainable renewable resources. Biodiesel biodegrades faster than salt.
- More than 95 % of biodiesel is degraded after 21 days, that is faster than table salt, fossil Diesel : about 72 % after 21 days. Biodiesel has low toxicity and is a natural solvent.
- Biodiesel has a positive input-output energy ratio of 1 : 3,23. Meaning for 1 unit energy input Biodiesel produces 3,23 units of energy output. Fossil Diesel has a energy ratio of
- Biodiesel base product of Oilseed from plant is a form of free solar energy which is stored by the oilseed plan
- Some rightly question the sustainability of the feed stock, taking human consumed oil such as canola for biodiesel increases the price of that oil elsewhere. Traditional farming markets using fertiliser, or wholesalers of vegetable oils across the world are noticing increased prices for these commodities. The biofuels industry is responsible for this issue. That is why Biomax is conducting extensive study into algae. Algae has the potential to solve the domestic oil supply, with a yield per acre measurably superior to the current highest yielding oil plant; Palm Oil.
- energetix Biodiesel does not use Palm Oil as a feed stock, because Palm oil is grown after the cutting and burning of tropical Forests in Indonesia and Asia. The dominant oil used by Energetix is Canola oil and recycled vegetable oil grown in Australia.
- Biodiesel is safer to handle and store than conventional diesel. Fuels with a flash point (when they ignite) of lower than 100 °C requires special safety equipment for transport and storage. Biodiesel has a flash point of: > 110 °C , fossil Diesel: > 55 ° C, making Biodiesel safer to store.
- It is a renewable bio-based fuel and, as such, has a lower life cycle CO2 emissions than diesel derived from mineral oils. Biodiesel does still emit carbon, but the industry refer to it as carbon neutral; the CO2 is offset by the plants it comes from. A crop of oil producing plants will absorb exactly the same amount of carbon dioxide in order to produce a gallon of vegetable oil in the gallon of vegetable oil emits when an is burned in the engine.
- Biodiesel contains almost no sulphur and no aromatics. In a properly tuned engine this leads to up to 60% lower particulate exhaust emission. That is the black stuff you see spewing out of a truck exhaust. Breathing particulate has been shown to be a human health hazard. this makes biodiesel particularly good in built up areas, like our inner city streets.
- It is our communities infrastructure which causes much of these particulates; our trains, municipal buses, small inner city trucks and garbage trucks, they all predominantly use diesel fuel.
- International commercial studies have found using B20 biodiesel fuel significantly reduces: Smoke (30%), PM (particulate matter) emissions (39%), reducing Sulphur dioxide by 100%, Soot by 40-60%, Carbon monoxide by 10-50%, Hydrocarbons by 10-50%, Carcinogenic PAHs are reduced across the board by 60%. Although depending on engine tuning and the age of the engine, Nitrous oxide emissions may increase in some instances.
- Exhaust emissions of total hydrocarbons (a contributing factor in the localized formation of smog and ozone) were 93% lower for Biodiesel than Diesel fuel.