Producing diesel oil from crocodile fat

Recently American scientists at Louisiana University have succeeded in extracting biofuel from crocodile fat.

Crocodile is not only a novelty dish but also provides high quality biofuel source. Every year, the crocodile processing industry buries about 7.5 million kg of crocodile fat. Successful research not only addresses environmental issues, but also contributes to a clean source of fuel.

Diesel fat derived from crocodile fat almost meets all standards of high quality biodiesel

In 2008, the US produced about 700 million gallons of biodiesel out of a total of 45 billion gallons of diesel consumed. Most biodiesel is extracted from soybeans. However, scientists are concerned that the use of food to produce oil will make food prices escalate, so they diverted research to find alternative materials including mud and dynamic fat. food and vegetable oil.

High lipid content in crocodile fat can be regenerated by microwaves and chemical solvents. Although biofuel derived from crocodile fat only plays a small part in biodiesel production, it has a great advantage of low cost because crocodile fat is a waste product.