With this car - and the technical support of LANXESS - the Japanese fotojournalist Shusei Yamada toured around the world.
Shusei Yamada fueled his car's engine with filtered cooking oil.
The production facility for biodiesel was designed to fit the car. (All Photos: Shusei Yamada, Biodiesel Adventure)
June 04, 2009
Around the world in 360 days – with ion exchange resins and expertise from LANXESS
Compact on-board unit turns used vegetable oil into eco-friendly biodiesel
Japanese photojournalist Shusei Yamada is on another Biodiesel Adventure Tour. After completing his eco-friendly around-the-world journey in an SUV with the help of biodiesel refined on the go, he is now traveling through the rural regions of his home country.
An on-board, ultra-compact production unit provides the fuel: biodiesel made of waste vegetable oil used for frying in households and restaurants. Largely responsible for the innovative technology is specialty chemicals group LANXESS. "LANXESS provided ion exchange resins and technical support that allowed me to forego the use of fossil fuel and instead run my Land Cruiser on biodiesel refined on the go‚" said Yamada. Lewatit® GF202 ion exchange resin from LANXESS played a crucial part in the project.
Besides providing Yamada with Lewatit® GF202, LANXESS offered a wide range of technical support that proved invaluable in making the compact biodiesel fuel production unit, including advice on the ideal temperature for removing impurities from the vegetable oil. This expertise proved to be a major contribution to turning Yamada's vision into reality and actually building a compact, on-board unit capable of refining 40 liters of biodiesel at a time – and to making the Biodiesel Adventure a success.
Further information can be found in the _press release and under www.biodieseladventure.com
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