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Agricultural waste derived fuel from oil meal and waste cooking oil

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Oil meal is a by-product of the oil industry (peanut meal, sesame meal, and camellia meal). Oil is extracted from seeds, and the leftover meal is then pelletized, and this process generates a large amount of waste oil meal in Taiwan. In this study, peanut meal, sesame meal, and camellia meal derived fuels were prepared from the waste oil meal with waste cooking oil. The combustion behaviors of the oil meal derived fuels were also investigated. The characteristics of the derived fuel made from oil meal with waste cooking oil showed that the ash content is less than 10% and its calorific value reached 5000 kcal/kg. Additionally, the activation energy of the oil meal and waste cooking oil was analyzed by the Kissinger method. The results show that the fuel prepared in this work from the oil meal mixed with waste cooking oil is suitable for use as an alternative fuel and also avoids food safety issues.

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The financial supports by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan for the project MOST 105-2221-E-002-011 are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. The Experimental Forest, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, No.12, Section 1, Chien-Shan Road, Chu-Shan, Nan-Tou, 55750, Taiwan

    Fang-Chih Chang

  2. School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan

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Chang, FC., Tsai, MJ. & Ko, CH. Agricultural waste derived fuel from oil meal and waste cooking oil. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 5223–5230 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9119-x

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