Neutral Fuels pioneers dairy waste as new biofuel feedstock
Dubai – After two years of research into new 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.
Importantly, the new fuel is of the same quality as the vegetable oil-derived biofuel from Neutral Fuels, which has fueled McDonald’s UAE’s logistics fleet for almost seven MMkm over the past four years. It is equally European standards compliant.
“Dubai is one of the few places in the world with a proper clean energy vision and a commitment to achieving 100% recycling,” said Karl W Feilder, Chairman and CEO of Neutral Fuels. “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:
- It is one of Dubai’s most successful recycling companies
- Its biorefinery is an example of a waste-to-energy plant
- Its research into new production techniques and feedstocks represents an investment in Zero Waste.
According to research company Mordor Intelligence, the UAE is the second largest producer of dairy products in the GCC after Saudi Arabia and is expected to experience swift growth to 2021.
The UAE’s annual fresh milk production is 167,000 t, and every 1% waste that is processed into biofuel will result in 1,670,000 liters of biofuel that will reduce the carbon footprint by 4460 t of carbon and equivalents.
Feilder said Neutral Fuel’s success in this innovation partly to a team of reliable and high caliber graduate interns in Dubai, many of them women, who participated in the company’s research with fresh thinking, innovation, and enthusiasm.
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