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    Executive Summary: NACES 2015 - Plant Design

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    The document proposes a plant design to produce biodiesel from poultry waste like chicken feathers. Poultry waste is a promising feedstock as it is cheaper than vegetable oils and will not compete with food markets. The plant would extract lipids from chicken feather meal via trans-esterification to produce biodiesel for $0.26 per liter, cheaper than soy-based biodiesel. It would also use carbonized chicken feathers to develop hydrogen storage tanks, as the keratin fibers could absorb more hydrogen than competing technologies. The final products would be biodiesel and hydrogen storage tanks to provide renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

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    The document proposes a plant design to produce biodiesel from poultry waste like chicken feathers. Poultry waste is a promising feedstock as it is cheaper than vegetable oils and will not compete with food markets. The plant would extract lipids from chicken feather meal via trans-esterification to produce biodiesel for $0.26 per liter, cheaper than soy-based biodiesel. It would also use carbonized chicken feathers to develop hydrogen storage tanks, as the keratin fibers could absorb more hydrogen than competing technologies. The final products would be biodiesel and hydrogen storage tanks to provide renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

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    The document proposes a plant design to produce biodiesel from poultry waste like chicken feathers. Poultry waste is a promising feedstock as it is cheaper than vegetable oils and will not compete with food markets. The plant would extract lipids from chicken feather meal via trans-esterification to produce biodiesel for $0.26 per liter, cheaper than soy-based biodiesel. It would also use carbonized chicken feathers to develop hydrogen storage tanks, as the keratin fibers could absorb more hydrogen than competing technologies. The final products would be biodiesel and hydrogen storage tanks to provide renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

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    Executive Summary: NACES 2015 - Plant Design

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    The document proposes a plant design to produce biodiesel from poultry waste like chicken feathers. Poultry waste is a promising feedstock as it is cheaper than vegetable oils and will not compete with food markets. The plant would extract lipids from chicken feather meal via trans-esterification to produce biodiesel for $0.26 per liter, cheaper than soy-based biodiesel. It would also use carbonized chicken feathers to develop hydrogen storage tanks, as the keratin fibers could absorb more hydrogen than competing technologies. The final products would be biodiesel and hydrogen storage tanks to provide renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

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    NACES 2015 Plant Design

    Executive Summary
    The plummet of fossil fuel price despite increment in energy demand indicates
    a promising future for renewable energy. To tackle fossil fuel depletion crisis as well
    as mitigate negative impacts towards environment caused by fossil fuels, alternative
    biofuels from renewable resources have been a focus of intensive research. Our team
    are aware that despite the rapid development in algae biofuel and vegetable biofuel,
    the potential of poultry industry waste is always neglected. Currently, most of the
    biodiesel production is achieved using vegetable oils as the chief starting material.
    Nevertheless, the main pitfall in using plant oils as feedstock is that they are noneconomical and non-feasible due to the prohibitive cost and the fact that they compete
    with the food market. At the same time, the endless appetite for poultry products
    produced 11 billion pounds of poultry waste annually. Hence we proposed to utilize
    animal based waste products (eg. chicken feather meal) to produce biodiesels, which
    has an advantage of minimizing waste and reducing environmental pollution. Unlike
    conventional biofuel sources such as corn, vegetable oil and sugar cane, it is not in
    demand for human food. Besides, manufacturing cost for biodiesel from chicken
    feather meal is around US$ 0.26 per liter (US$1 per gallon) for an average capacity
    biofuel plant, making it more economic compared to soy biodiesel, for example corn
    oil which costs US$ 1.85-2.11 per liter (US$ 7-8 per gallon). Chicken feather meal
    has high lipid content of 11%wt (higher than other plants feedstock used like soybean,
    coconut, sunflower and etc.) and can be extracted from feather meal through transesterification (schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste is
    as shown in Figure 1). By statistics, considering the feather meal produced from the
    poultry each year, we could produce a huge sum of 593 million gallons across the
    world.
    Beside the biofuel extracted, our also explore the possibilities of the chicken
    feather meal. Typically, extracted chicken feather meal can be further processed into a
    higher-grade animal feed or a better nitrogen source for fertilizer applications. Recent
    research shown that chicken feather meal contains stronger and more absorbent
    keratin fiber than wood. Carbonized chicken feathers bears a resemblance to highly
    versatile (and tiny) carbon nanotubes, which can be utilized to store hydrogen for
    fuel-cell vehicles. Speaking of hydrogen, it has been considered as a clean and

    NACES 2015 Plant Design

    abundant energy alternative to fossil fuels for many years, only its low density causes
    high cost for metal hydride storage. Carbonized chicken feather fibers (which
    composed of keratin, which is a natural protein that forms strong, hollow tubes) holds
    the potential of improving drastically existing methods of hydrogen storage and
    would pave the way for the practical development of a truly hydrogen-based energy
    economy. They can absorb more hydrogen than carbon nanotubes or metal hydrides.
    Hence, our final product will be biofuel and hydrogen storage tank.
    In conclusion, there is a huge scope for this idea to further grow up bringing
    new trends and economical technologies by exploring the potential of poultry waste
    biofuel, as well as providing cheap alternative for hydrogen fuel hold up, developing
    two types of renewable energy simultaneously hence relieving the rely on fossil fuels.

    Poultry Industry

    Meat

    Poultry Waste
    (Chicken feathers, blood, offal and trims)

    Hydrolyzed Product
    I

    Drying

    Feather Meal
    II

    Biodiesel

    Animal Food

    i) Water Extraction
    ii) Trans-esterification

    High Protein Feather Meal

    Figure 1: Schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste

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