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Production of biodiesel from vegetable oil was first done in 1853 by scientists E. Duffy and J. Patrick. Forty years later, Rudolf Diesel's first engine ran for the first time in Augsburg, Germany, on 10 August 1893 using peanut oil as biodiesel.

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