Cutting waste, fossil fuel use, and greenhouse gas emissions by turning unused food into biofuel
March 28, 2018 by Sharon Gaudin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Funded by a U.S. Department of Energy grant, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is creating a better way to convert waste food into biofuels that are environmentally friendly, a project that would have an impact on global problems like crude oil dependence, food waste, and water pollution.
Using food waste to create biofuels is not new, but processes developed thus far, which are cumbersome and expensive, have not caught on. In a paper published in the open-access journal Energies, Michael Timko, associate professor of chemical engineering, reports on work by a team of colleagues to significantly improve the yield of oil from the waste food conversion process while also improving efficiencies.
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