Recently acquired The Westin Singapore is the first hotel here to power its limousines — two jaguar XJ sedans — with biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oils or animal fats from its kitchens.
The limousines run on a mix of seven percent biodiesel with 93 percent diesel, a combination that’s been found to reduce harmful emissions by as much as 95 percent as opposed to conventional diesel fuel.
According to TODAY, the hotel produces enough biodiesel — about 7,800kg of waste cooking oil — to fuel each limousine for about 150,000km every year.
Alpha Biofuels, a partner with The Westin Singapore, refines the waste cooking oil at its Tuas plant for the hotel’s biodiesel-powered limousines weekly.
The company is also planning to install a micro-refinery on the fifth storey of the hotel in the next few months, enabling the hotel to conveniently convert the waste cooking oil into fuel on its own.
Source: TODAY
