The Factors that Affect Biodiesel Development in China at Present

In the first 10 years of 21 century, the average annual growth rate of biodiesel market is 41.9%, with fuel need increases and the rising of fuel price, many countries began to do research on biodiesel and put it into application. Now chemical method is the main method to produce biodiesel, the reason is that chemical method can change the molecular structure of raw waste oil and make it similar with the oil, so there would be less or even no damage to the motor than using the physical method made oil, and with no changes to the motor configuration.

One of restricting factors in china is the resource of the raw material, one option is woody oil crops, another one is waste edible oil. China is a country with large population and little cultivated land, so one important rule of developing biodiesel is no encroachment of the cultivated land, and anything related to food is not a feasible choice, use waste edible oil is a good for the environment and can avoid the waste oil being recycled and processed into edible oil again. The market is not stable; the technology is not mature; there are no unified Products standards, but the bio-energy industry looks promising and has great potential in the future. After the European countries and USA, China is becoming one of the 3rd trend of countries with rapid development of biodiesel production. AGICO is a company in China which specializes in the production of biodiesel machines.