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Biofuel production and characterization from waste chicken skin and pig fat

Title
Biofuel production and characterization from waste chicken skin and pig fat
Creator
Ravikumar R.; Hashmi M.A.; Shankar Ganesh L.; Bikkannavar S.V.; Vivek D.R.
Description
The biofuels are the most important alternative energy sources in future to fulfil the energy demands. The team of our students carried out an innovative process to convert waste to value-added products. The students have been visited many meat stalls and gathered the required amount of resources with and without cost. The collected waste chicken skin and pig tallow is heated and extracted fat, which is the primary sources to produce the biofuel. The fat extraction process was carried by shredding down the waste chicken skin and pig tallow. The obtained fat was filtered and heated up to 110C to remove all the impurities, water suspensions, blood cells and pieces of bones. The process called transesterification process was carried out to convert obtained fat into biofuel with methyl alcohol and KOH as a catalyst. Transesterification process carted with fat before acid wash and after acid wash to examine the effect of FFA on biofuel yield. The quantity of biofuel yield has been observed to be 62 to 68% for fat from waste chicken skin and 82 to 83 % for fat from pig tallow. The derived fuel from fat from both resources is combined with conventional diesel fuel to check the different properties on a volume basis varied by 10% up to 40%. The essential properties such as viscosity, density, flashpoint, fire point and calorific values were determined, and results show that the fuel combination CB20 and PB20 meets the all requirements of ASTM standards to fix as an additive fuel to CI engines. The clear biofuel from both the fat expressed higher viscosity, density, flash and fire point with a lesser value of energy density. BEIESP.
Source
International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, Vol-8, No. 3, pp. 3598-3608.
Date
2019-01-01
Publisher
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication
Subject
Biofuel; Chicken skin; Pig fat; Transesterification
Coverage
Ravikumar R., Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India; Hashmi M.A., Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India; Shankar Ganesh L., Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India; Bikkannavar S.V., Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India; Vivek D.R., Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India
Rights
All Open Access; Gold Open Access
Relation
ISSN: 22773878
Format
Online
Language
English
Type
Article

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Citation

Ravikumar R.; Hashmi M.A.; Shankar Ganesh L.; Bikkannavar S.V.; Vivek D.R., “Biofuel production and characterization from waste chicken skin and pig fat,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/16606.

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