Sentence examples for gallons of biodiesel from inspiring English sources

Dealers sold 75 million gallons of biodiesel last year, she said, triple the volume of 2004.

The United States produces enough waste greases a year to make 500 million gallons of biodiesel.

New York City alone could produce 53 million gallons of biodiesel annually from its waste greases, Dr. Tyson estimated.

The grain is more than 10percentt oil, and one ton of it can yield 30 gallons of biodiesel.

The town has used 112,000 gallons of biodiesel since then and expects to use 100,000 gallons this year.

The plant could eventually squeeze 330 gallons of biodiesel a day out of 12,000 gallons of greasy wastewater.

And the $1 per gallon of biodiesel amounts to roughly one-quarter of the fuel's current wholesale price.

And for each gallon of biodiesel produced, the refinery would also make a few ounces of glycerol, a chemical valuable in industry, he said.

"For every gallon of biodiesel you make, you make a pound of glycerol," said George Kraus, a professor of chemistry at Iowa State, where he is director of the Center for Catalysis and a collaborator of Mr. Lin.

To make a gallon of biodiesel you start with a gallon of edible oil (palm, rapeseed or soybean) that costs, say, $2.70 today, then spend another 80 cents or so on transportation and additives.

In other words, every gallon of biodiesel produced generates approximately 1.05 pounds of glycerol.