Co-liquefaction of swine manure with waste vegetable oil for enhanced bio-oil production |
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| Authors: | Shuangning Xiu Abolghasem Shahbazi Lijun Wang |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA |
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| Abstract: | Waste vegetable oil was co-liquefied with swine manure to determine the bio-oil potential in this study. The result shows that co-liquefaction of waste vegetable oil with swine manure can improve the bio-oil production and decarboxylation of waste vegetable oil. The weight ratio of swine manure to waste vegetable oil exerted a great effect on both the yield and quality of the bio-oil. The optimum weight ratio of swine manure to waste cooking oil was 1:3, where a maximum oil yield of 80% was obtained with higher calorific value up to 38 MJ/kg. |
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| Keywords: | Biofuel bio-oil liquefaction swine manure vegetable oil |
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