Neutral Fuels Pioneers Dairy Waste as New Biofuel Feedstock

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DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

     Recycling waste dairy products to help meet Dubai's Zero Waste target

    After two years of research into new and improved ways to create biofuels,

Neutral Fuels has become the first company to successfully use butter, cream

and ghee waste as a feedstock for creating commercial biofuel.

    To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:

https://www.multivu.com/players/uk/8047451-neutral-fuels-pioneers-dairy-waste-biofuel

    Importantly, the new fuel is of the same high quality as the vegetable

oil-derived biofuel that Neutral Fuels has become renowned for and which has

fuelled McDonald's UAE's logistics fleet for almost seven million kilometres

over the past four years. It is equally European standards compliant, so

customers won't notice any difference.

    Karl W Feilder, Chairman and CEO of Neutral Fuels, said the company was

inspired by Dubai Municipality's "Zero Waste by 2030" target.

    "Dubai is one of the few places in the world with a proper clean energy

vision and a commitment to achieving 100% recycling," said Feilder. "We concur

with Engineer Abdulmajeed Abdulaziz Saifaie, Director of the Waste Management

Department, when he says Dubai has to shift from waste collection to

sustainable and innovative waste management. This includes more recycling, more

waste-to-energy plants and more investment in this field."

    Neutral Fuels participates at all three levels:

    1) It is one of Dubai's most successful recycling companies

     2) Its biorefinery is a fantastic example of a waste-to-energy plant

     3) Its ongoing research into new production techniques and feedstocks

represents a serious investment in Zero Waste.

    Feilder continued, "We really want to inspire other companies to find new

uses for their waste. Our recipe is to never stop innovating. Even in our

seventh year of successfully converting used vegetable cooking oil into

biofuel, we were still able to recognise the size and prospects of the dairy

sector. Every dairy operation produces a small percentage of waste, plus it

always has to dispose of outdated produce. Turning that into biofuel is the

most useful thing to do with it."

    According to a research company Mordor Intelligence, the UAE is the second

largest producer of dairy products in the GCC [

https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/dairy-market-in-the-united-arab-emirates-industry

] after Saudi Arabia and is expected to experience swift growth to 2021. This

means even greater quantities of waste and an even greater need to dispose of

it intelligently.

    The UAE's annual fresh milk production is 167,000 tonnes

[http://www.uaetoday.com/news_details_ad.asp?newsid=2371 ], and every 1% waste

that is processed into biofuel will result in 1,670,000 litres of biofuel which

will reduce the carbon footprint by 4460 tonnes of carbon and equivalents. Add

to this the waste from making butter, cream and ghee and the volume of biofuel

from the dairy industry could more than double.

    This, together with Neutral Fuels vegetable oil-derived biofuel, helps

offset the UAE's carbon footprint, reported as one of the largest in the world

[

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/greening-desert-how-uae-aims-change-its-carbon-footprint-599849.html

] so contributing to solving one of the world's biggest problems: climate

change.

    Feilder attributed Neutral Fuel's success in this innovation partly to a

team of reliable and high calibre graduate interns in Dubai, many of them

women, who participated in the company's research with fresh thinking,

innovation, and enthusiasm.

    "While we create superb opportunities to help them bridge the worlds of

academia and business, they help us with all the detail that goes into

developing new ways of doing things. It is critically important that we share

our knowledge and experience with the next generation of innovators, so that

they can pass on the entrepreneurial spirit to everyone they meet."

    ABOUT NEUTRAL FUELS

    Neutral Fuels LLC http://www.biodiesel.ae is a Dubai based company which

converts waste vegetable oils into European EN14214 standard compliant biofuel,

a sustainable replacement for fossil diesel.  Neutral Fuels is the first

licensed biorefinery in the UAE and the first biofuels producer in the world to

pioneer and master a successful biofuel production business model that operates

entirely without government subsidy. The company's production methods,

technologies and business model are almost single-handedly turning Dubai into a

regional Biofuels Knowledge Centre.

    Neutral Fuels is part of The Neutral Group http://www.tng.ae, an

international clean-tech organisation founded in 2006 by Karl W Feilder to

build sustainability strategies for the global logistics, energy and

hospitality industries and to execute significant reductions in energy spend

and CO2 emissions.

    ABOUT BIOFUEL

    http://www.neutral-fuels.com/benefits-of-biodiesel

    http://www.neutral-fuels.com/why-biodiesel

    http://www.neutral-fuels.com/what-is-biodiesel

    CONTACT     

    The Neutral Group (Neutral Fuels, Neutral Consulting, Neutral Select,

Neutral Software)

     kwf@theneutralgroup.com

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SOURCE:  Neutral Fuels