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The demand for biofuels currently exceeds the supply. This investigation focused on the potential to produce biodiesel from oil extracted from garbage. Several sources of food waste were investigated in the United States and in Vietnam, and the oil content ranged from about 10% to nearly 30% of the dry mass. Conditions were optimized for preparation of biodiesel from the food waste oil. It was also found that the solid residue, after oil extraction, has a caloric value similar to that of brown coal, and thus is a potential source of solid fuel.
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Issue: Vol 15 No 3 (2012)
Page No.: 47-56
Published: Sep 30, 2012
Section: Natural Sciences - Research article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v15i3.1846
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Copyright: The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pratt, L. M., Gunasekaran, M., Voit, S., Le, T., Luu, T., Chau, K., Slocum, J., McCallister, M., Herrmann, Z. M., Doepke, A., Nubel, C., Pinhas, A., & Gardner, O. (2012). FOOD WASTE AS A SOURCE OF BIOFUELS. Science and Technology Development Journal, 15(3), 47-56. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v15i3.1846
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