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Ländlicher Raum    Feb. 2012

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KÖRBITZ

Werner Körbitz: New Trends in Developing Biodiesel World-wide

Under the impression of the supply crisis of mineral-oil in the seventies the development of Biodiesel was started about 1982 in Austria and was driven by the following factors:

  • to increase the supply security of liquid form energy for the transport sector by having a renewable source at hand,
  • the need to have an environmentally friendly fuel available for the Diesel combustion engine,
  • to reduce health and security risks and
  • to provide the customer with a reliable fuel at a reasonable cost-benefit ratio...