Plant Oils

Basics

• A term for any sort of oils derived from living or recently dead plants (ie Biomass ) in a non-chemically transformative way
• This is kind of terminology hell, but it is the best "Central Term" for:
  • Vegetable Oil
    • ie Soybean Oil
  • Algae Oil
• Also Bio-Oil often is used in scientific literature to refer to Pyrolysis Oil and is thus an ineffective search term for this
• Also "Oil/Oils" can be used for this, but also is often used for referring to Oil (Fossil Fuel)
• Mainly used as Cooking Oils and as Biofuel
  • Either directly (see Unprocessed Plant Oil as Fuel ), or via further Bio-Refining
    • Most commonly Bio-Diesel

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• Bio-Diesel