Interregional Comparisons of BDF Projects with Used Cooking Oil Promoted by Some Municipalities Focusing on their Collecting Process

Abstract

The situation with collection of used cooking oil for production of BDF was investigated by through cross-regional comparison and examination of three municipalities with various collecting methods. These investigations found the project costs and the "collecting rates" of each municipality, and elucidated factors that have the most impact on the "collecting rates". In addition, benefit/cost analysis was carried out for hypothetical addition of one extra collecting base for th used cooking oil in each of the municipality.