Cooking oil

Cooking oil

Sourced brown grease contaminants claim with Canakci 2007

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In the recycling industry, used cooking oil recovered from restaurants and food-processing industries (typically from [[deep fryer]]s or [[griddle]]s) is called yellow grease, recycled vegetable oil (RVO), used vegetable oil (UVO), or waste vegetable oil (WVO).[http://www.nrbp.org/pdfs/pub32.pdf Brown Grease Feedstocks for Biodiesel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617023123/http://www.nrbp.org/pdfs/pub32.pdf|date=2012-06-17}}. K. Shaine Tyson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Retrieved January 31, 2009
In the recycling industry, used cooking oil recovered from restaurants and food-processing industries (typically from [[deep fryer]]s or [[griddle]]s) is called yellow grease, recycled vegetable oil (RVO), used vegetable oil (UVO), or waste vegetable oil (WVO).[http://www.nrbp.org/pdfs/pub32.pdf Brown Grease Feedstocks for Biodiesel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617023123/http://www.nrbp.org/pdfs/pub32.pdf|date=2012-06-17}}. K. Shaine Tyson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Retrieved January 31, 2009


[[Grease trap]]s or interceptors collect fats and oils from kitchen sinks and floor drains. The result is called brown grease, and unlike yellow grease, it contains severe contaminants that make it much harder to recycle.{{cn|date=March 2026}}
[[Grease trap]]s or interceptors collect fats and oils from kitchen sinks and floor drains. The result is called brown grease, and unlike yellow grease, it contains severe contaminants that make it much harder to recycle.{{cite journal |last=Canakci |first=M. |year=2007 |title=The potential of restaurant waste lipids as biodiesel feedstocks |journal=Bioresource Technology |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=183–190|doi=10.1016/j.biortech.2005.11.022 |pmid=16403628}}


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