LF100 – Biofuel from Waste Cooking Oil

Waste cooking oil doesn't have to be wasted!

Living Fuels collect used cooking oil and recycle it into a patented biofuel called LF100 which provides green electricity for businesses and homes.

What's so unique about this biofuel?

No chemicals, just pure oil!

Our biofuel is produced using only natural gravitational settling (sedimentation) and filtering. No chemicals whatsoever are used in the process, and we add no more than ambient temperature (to keep the East Anglian chill out of the oil!).

Renewable energy

The process of recovering LF100 is very clean, green and natural as opposed to the high carbon footprint of manufacturing biodiesel. It has a very small carbon impact and, moreover, it uses waste cooking oil as its feedstock.

The government themselves have stated “..it can be seen that the highest absolute savings in GHG [greehouse gasses] emissions can be achieved by using refined vegetable oil derived from used cooking oil in a CHP [combined heat and power]unit...”

Sustainable electricity with Combined Heat and Power

The LF100 biofuel is solely used for clean, green, renewable energy (electricity) and heat generation within our sister company Living Power who have CHP (Combined Heat & Power) facilities across the UK. They provide sustainable and renewable electricity and heat for homes and businesses - a green alternative to electricity and heat generated from fossil fuels such as coal and gas.

Although it is actually very difficult to prove any product is ‘carbon neutral’, the very low carbon impact on the recovery process of our biofuel makes it an ideal sustainable alternative for businesses. Homes and families benefit from the power generated from LF100 where our facilities deliver electricity directly in the National Grid.

LF100 is only used within REG Bio-Power (the group company name for Living Fuels and Living Power) and cannot be purchased.

Simply a greener fuel

The LF100 biofuel is NOT a biodiesel which is manufactured in a very carbon greedy industrial process. In very simple terms, it involves the chemical processes of adding Hydroxides and Methanol in a ‘Catalyst Mix’, the reactive process of Transeterification, where the chemicals are mixed with quantities of vegetable oil (sometimes as small as 7% vegetable oil), separating out the hazardous by-product of this process known as Glycerol, neutralising the Methyl Esters with a Reagent, removing the methanol with processes such as ‘Flash Evaporation’ or distillation before giving the whole product a final wash which in turn creates more by-products.

How about a cuppa?

It’s incredible to imagine, but the electricity generated from a single litre of used cooking oil recovered in to our LF100 biofuel is enough to make 240 cups of tea!