• Question: How long does it take to create the plant biofuel?

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      Asked by orange_watermelon to Mzamo on 7 Nov 2016.
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        Mzamo Shozi answered on 7 Nov 2016:

        Well it depends. I use a plant chemical known as glycerol which comes from cellulose. It is this glycerol that I change to biofuel using chemicals called catalysts, just to speed up the reaction and also get more biofuel out of the glycerol. The process can be from a few hours to even a day depending on how much biofuel you are getting at the experiment conditions you are using such as temperature.

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