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Pyrolysis of waste animal fats in a fixed-bed reactor: Production and characterization of bio-oil and bio-char

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In this paper, the main products (liquid bio-oil, solid bio-char and syngas) were obtained from pyrolysis of animal fatty wastes, and the maximum production of biooil was achieved at a pyroleysis temperature of 500 °C and a heating rate of 5 °C/min.
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This article is published in Waste Management.The article was published on 2014-01-01. It has received 152 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pyrolysis & Synthetic fuel.

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Operating parameters for bio-oil production in biomass pyrolysis: A review

TL;DR: In this paper, a review on parameters that influence the pyrolysis process, such as temperature, reaction time, heating rate, gas flow rate, feed rate, particle size and biomass composition, is presented.
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Progress in waste oil to sustainable energy, with emphasis on pyrolysis techniques

TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge the financial support by Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation Malaysia (MOSTI), Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE), and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu for the conduct of the research under the E-Science fund (UMT/RMC/SF/13/52072(5), Vot no. 52072), the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Project no. FRGS/1/2013/TK05/UMTs/02/2, Vot No. 59296), and the Research Acc
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Recent trends of biodiesel production from animal fat wastes and associated production techniques

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of trends and techniques in biodiesel production from animal fat wastes (AFWs) is presented, and a critical overview of homogeneous and heterogeneous (one- or two-step) catalytic transesterification is presented.
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Food waste to biochars through pyrolysis: A review

TL;DR: In this article, the potential opportunities for food waste pyrolysis focusing on the conversion of food waste to biochar products were evaluated. But the authors did not consider the food waste composition and the process conditions.
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A comprehensive review of low cost biodiesel production from waste chicken fat

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed review has been done on the use of novel heterogeneous catalysts for transesterification process such as metal-based catalysts and organic catalysts.
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Biodiesel fuels from vegetable oils via catalytic and non-catalytic supercritical alcohol transesterifications and other methods: a survey

TL;DR: The main factors affecting transesterification are the molar ratio of glycerides to alcohol, catalyst, reaction temperature and pressure, reaction time and the contents of free fatty acids and water in oils as mentioned in this paper.
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Bio-fuels from thermochemical conversion of renewable resources: A review

TL;DR: In this article, a review of pyrolysis has been presented, where various types of pyrotechnics have been discussed in detail including slow, fast, flash and catalytic processes.
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Biodiesel production from waste cooking oils

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of methanol/waste cooking oils ratio, potassium hydroxide concentration and temperature on the biodiesel conversion were investigated, and the results showed that the resulting biodiesel experienced a higher but much narrower boiling range than conventional diesel.
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Fuel oil quality of biomass pyrolysis oils-state of the art for the end users

TL;DR: In this article, physical and chemical characteristics of bio-oils relevant to fuel applications as well as some low-cost methods for improvement of these properties are discussed, and the authors also provide bio-oil specifications proposed by some industrial users.
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Pyrolysis of triglyceride materials for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

TL;DR: Research in this area is not as advanced as bio-oil and bio-diesel research and there is opportunity for further study in the areas of reaction optimization, detailed characterization of products and properties, and scale-up.
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