Biodiesel from chicken fat??
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Biodiesel from chicken fat??
I saw this on the company website.
In biodiesel, chicken fat could be the next soy
Jerry Bagby and a longtime friend have cobbled together $5 million to build a new biodiesel plant on the lonely croplands outside Dexter in southeast Missouri. They're betting they can hit pay dirt by exploiting a generally overlooked natural resource that's abundant in those parts—chicken fat. Nearby Tyson Foods' poultry plant currently ships the low-quality fat out of state to be rendered and used in pet food, soap and other products. Bagby and his partner want to refine the fat, mix it with soybean oil and produce about 3 million gallons of biodiesel annually. Currently, soybean oil accounts for 90 percent of all biodiesel fuel stock, and its cost is rising. The shift to animal fat as a fuel stock could be key to making the budding biodiesel industry a reliable fuel source for U.S. trucking fleets, said Vernon Eidman, a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota who has studied the biofuels industry extensively. Eidman estimates that within five years, the United States will produce 1 billion gallons of biodiesel, and half of it will be made from animal fat. By that time, soybean-based biodiesel will account for about 20 percentof the total, he said. Tyson alone produces about 2.3 billion pounds of chicken fat annually from its plants. That would translate into nearly 300 million gallons that could be converted to fuel.Soybean oil costs 33 cents a pound while chicken fat costs 19 cents.(Associated Press )
In biodiesel, chicken fat could be the next soy
Jerry Bagby and a longtime friend have cobbled together $5 million to build a new biodiesel plant on the lonely croplands outside Dexter in southeast Missouri. They're betting they can hit pay dirt by exploiting a generally overlooked natural resource that's abundant in those parts—chicken fat. Nearby Tyson Foods' poultry plant currently ships the low-quality fat out of state to be rendered and used in pet food, soap and other products. Bagby and his partner want to refine the fat, mix it with soybean oil and produce about 3 million gallons of biodiesel annually. Currently, soybean oil accounts for 90 percent of all biodiesel fuel stock, and its cost is rising. The shift to animal fat as a fuel stock could be key to making the budding biodiesel industry a reliable fuel source for U.S. trucking fleets, said Vernon Eidman, a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota who has studied the biofuels industry extensively. Eidman estimates that within five years, the United States will produce 1 billion gallons of biodiesel, and half of it will be made from animal fat. By that time, soybean-based biodiesel will account for about 20 percentof the total, he said. Tyson alone produces about 2.3 billion pounds of chicken fat annually from its plants. That would translate into nearly 300 million gallons that could be converted to fuel.Soybean oil costs 33 cents a pound while chicken fat costs 19 cents.(Associated Press )