Following the growth of the global population and the subsequent rapid increase in
urbanization and industrialization, the fisheries and aquaculture production has seen a …

An ever-increasing energy demand and environmental problems associated with
exhaustible fossil fuels have led to the search for an alternative renewable source of energy …

Pyrolysis is one of the thermochemical technologies for converting biomass into energy and
chemical products consisting of liquid bio-oil, solid biochar, and pyrolytic gas. Depending on …

Increasing demand for fuels and chemicals, driven by factors including over-population, the
threat of global warming and the scarcity of fossil resources, strains our resource system and …

Non-edible feedstocks such as animal fat wastes (AFWs) have recently increased in
popularity as alternatives to vegetable oils in the production of biodiesel. They are low cost …

By-products from different animal sources are currently being utilised for beneficial
purposes. Chicken processing plants all over the world generate large amount of solid by …

The thermal cracking of waste cooking oil (WCO) via pyrolysis was performed using a
laboratory scale fixed-bed reactor. The effects of the final pyrolysis temperature (from 550° C …

Several animal (lamb, poultry and swine) fatty wastes were pyrolyzed under nitrogen, in a
laboratory scale fixed-bed reactor and the main products (liquid bio-oil, solid bio-char and …

Among the renewable energy sources, the potential for biofuel energy in Iran is numerous.
The Iranian government is paying considerable attention for utilization of renewable energy; …

The objective of this paper was to optimize, by composite central design coupled to
response surface methodology, the enzymatic biodiesel production from oil coming from fish …