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Alternative Oilseeds R&D For Biodiesel Production 2001, Paul Carmody, Howrd Carr, Anne Morcom, Graham Walton
Alternative Oilseeds R&D For Biodiesel Production 2001, Paul Carmody, Howrd Carr, Anne Morcom, Graham Walton
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There is a slow but growing realization that crude oil is our weakness component in Australia’s energy portfolio. Australia’s domestic reserves of heavy crude oil, which is essential in the production of petroleum diesel, it expected to reach exhaustion by 2012 on current usage patterns. A need to become more heavily dependant on import crude oil will impact on our balance of trade and further expose our transport and rural sectors to international oil price fluctuations.
Biodiesel is widely known an excellent alternative to mineral diesel and has been extensively demonstrated in the EC and the United States. It is …