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From organic waste to biodiesel: Black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, makes it feasible
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In this article, the larvae of a high fat containing insect, black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) (BSFL), was evaluated for biodiesel production, where the larvae were grown on organic wastes for 10 days and used for crude fat extraction by petroleum ether.About:
This article is published in Fuel.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 237 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biodiesel production & Biodiesel.read more
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Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in Assuring Food Security
TL;DR: With a growing world population and increasingly demanding consumers, the production of sufficient protein from livestock, poultry, and fish represents a serious challenge for the future, and the development of costeffective, automated mass-rearing facilities that provide a reliable, stable, and safe product is needed.
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Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review.
TL;DR: The present review aims to provide an overview of current debate on food waste definitions, generation and reduction strategies, and conversion technologies emerging from the biorefinery concept.
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Review of Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) as Animal Feed and Human Food
Yu-Shiang Wang,Matan Shelomi +1 more
TL;DR: The literature on the black soldier fly is reviewed, which is capable of efficiently converting a wide variety of organic materials, from food waste to manure, into insect biomass, and which could potentially be milled and converted into a textured protein with a strong flavor.
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The use of fly larvae for organic waste treatment.
TL;DR: The major obstacles associated with the production of fly larvae from organic waste on an industrial scale seem to be technological aspects of scaling-up the production capacity, insufficient knowledge of fly biology necessary to produce large amounts of eggs, and current legislation.
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Nutritional value of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) and its suitability as animal feed – a review
TL;DR: Although BSF larvae contain high protein levels, and other macro- and micronutrients important for animal feed, available studies suggest that it could only partially replace traditional feedstuff, because high or complete replacement resulted in reduced performance.
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Soldier fly larvae as feed in commercial fish production
K. Bondari,D.C. Sheppard +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Hermetia illucens larvae were fed to channel catfish and tilapia, alone, and in combination with high-(45%) and low-(30%) protein commercial diets.
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Fuel consumption and emissions from a diesel power generator fuelled with castor oil and soybean biodiesel
Osmano Souza Valente,Márcio José da Silva,Vanya Márcia Duarte Pasa,Carlos Rodrigues Pereira Belchior,José Ricardo Sodré +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impacts on fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of a diesel power generator operating with biodiesel were investigated, and the results showed increased fuel consumption with higher biodiesel concentration in the fuel.
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Ferric sulphate catalysed esterification of free fatty acids in waste cooking oil.
TL;DR: In this work, the esterification of free fatty acids in waste cooking oil catalysed by ferric sulphate was studied as a pre-treatment step for biodiesel production, and showed that the conversion of FFA reached equilibrium after an hour, and was positively dependent on the methanol to oil molar ratio and temperature.
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Bioethanol production from non-starch carbohydrate residues in process streams from a dry-mill ethanol plant.
TL;DR: By applying heat pretreatment to the water-insoluble material prior to enzymatic hydrolysis, the ethanol yield could be increased by 59 L per ton flour, i.e. a 14% increase compared with starch-only utilization, assuming fermentation of the additional pentose and hexose sugars liberated.
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Solar photovoltaic systems: the economics of a renewable energy resource
TL;DR: Analysis of some emerging aspects of the economics of grid-connected photovoltaic systems finds that dividing costs by 2, a reasonable future possibility, would bring them close to competitiveness and further cost decreases, although possible, are still uncertain.