ALGA OIL AND PALM OIL PRODUCTION

Vegetable fats and oils like Algae oil can be used to make biodiesel. But their content of fats and acidity is different. The palm oil as fuel is not like the algae oil. Food uses make soybean oil the most used in absolute. But the new technology and research is changing the production potencials of algae oil.

In the following table is reported the world oil consumption in million tons:

soybean	26.0
palm	23.3
rapeseed	13.1
sunflowerseed	8.6
peanut	4.2
cottonseed	3.6
palm kernel	2.7
olive	2.5