New device could make biodiesel production easier

The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA:
by Greg Bolt -- 2/26/2006
"At its heart, the microreactor is a simple device. It's made by etching tiny, parallel grooves into wafers of plastic and gluing them together. That creates small channels, each one smaller than a human hair.
When vegetable oil and alcohol are forced through the channels along with a small amount of catalyst, the reaction that turns the mixture into biodiesel occurs almost instantly."