Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80503
Title: High-quality fuel from food waste - investigation of a stepwise process from the perspective of technology development
Authors: Yin, Ke
Li, Ling
Giannis, Apostolos
Weerachanchai, Piyarat
Ng, Bernard Jia Han
Wang, Jing-Yuan
Keywords: Food waste
Waste to energy
Issue Date: 2017
Source: Yin, K., Li, L., Giannis, A., Weerachanchai, P., Ng, B. J. H., & Wang, J.-Y. (2017). High-quality fuel from food waste - investigation of a stepwise process from the perspective of technology development. Environmental Technology, in press.
Series/Report no.: Environmental Technology
Abstract: A stepwise process (SP) was developed for sustainable energy production from food waste (FW). The process comprised of hydrothermal treatment followed by oil upgrading. Synthetic food waste was primarily used as feedstock in the hydrothermal reactor under subcritical water conditions. The produced hydrochars were analyzed for calorific value (17.0–33.7 MJ/kg) and elemental composition indicating high-quality fuel comparable to coal. Hydrothermal carbonization (e.g. 180°C) would be efficient for oil recovery (>90%) from FW, as compared to hydrothermal liquefaction (320°C) whereby lipid degradation may take place. The recovered oil was upgraded to biodiesel in a catalytic refinery process. Selected biodiesels, that is, B3 and B4 were characterized for density (872.7 and 895.5 kg/m3), kinematic viscosity (3.115 and 8.243 cSt), flash and pour point (30°C and >126°C), micro carbon (0.03% and 0.04%), sulfur (both <0.0016%), and calorific value (38,917 and 39,584 J/g), suggesting similar quality to commercial biodiesel. Fatty acid methyl ethers content was further analyzed to assess the influence of hydrothermal treatment in biodiesel quality, indicating the limited impacts. Overall, the SP provides a promising alternative for sustainable energy recovery through high-quality biofuel and hydrochar production.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80503
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42158
ISSN: 0959-3330
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2017.1297851
Research Centres: Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute 
Rights: © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Environmental Technology, Taylor & Francis Group. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2017.1297851].
Fulltext Permission: open
Fulltext Availability: With Fulltext
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