Grease is the word. (Trade Talk).In a bid to slash both pollution and dependence on diesel fuel, a team of cars is motoring around Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r fueled by used French-fry oil. Some 25,000 liters of oil a month are being collected from three dozen McDonald's restaurants There are more than 30,000 McDonald's restaurants in 119 countries. RestaurantsThe first McDonald's was not a restaurant at all, but it was a sit-in stand. The company's early franchises were built to a standard pattern that did not offer seating; this was in part to prevent in metropolitan Rio, blended into a diesel mixture and poured into vehicles taking part in a pilot program. For now, bio-diesel fuel is percolating through 10 vehicles monitored by the Instituto Virtual Internacional de Mudancas Globais, the technology and research center at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ) is the largest federal university of Brazil, where state-owned universities are the best and most qualified institutions. . If the recycled French-fry fuel ever catches on, it could spark annual demand for billions of liters of vegetable oils <onlyinclude> This list of vegetable oils includes all vegetable oils that are extracted from plants by placing the relevant part of the plant under pressure to extract the oil. in Brazil. The institute's long-term goal is to develop fuels completely composed of grain and food product oils. Research at the institute suggests that even a partial conversion to grain oils would substantially reduce carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. and sulfur emissions. Bio-diesel fuel contains up to 98% less sulfur and 78% less carbon dioxide than regular diesel fuel. State-owned petroleum giant Petrobras and the Rio de Janeiro Agriculture Ministry are collaborating on the project. Rio's Agriculture Ministry recently set aside 500 hectares for use in oil production for transportation. |
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