Biofuel production from food wastes
Abstract
Increasing demand for diesel fuel and growing concerns over global warming and crude oil shortage have advanced the development of renewable alternative fuels with low greenhouse gas emissions. Finding new uses for waste has renewed interests for the solution to the constraints of a resource system. One third of food produced globally for human consumption is lost along the food supply chain, which is almost all currently landfilled or incinerated. However, food waste has a significant potential to be employed as a raw material for the production of biofuel through ...
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