Tilapia Entrails Churn Out Biodiesel

Agriculture/Food Processing Residues nonfield crop, Brazil, Feedstock, R & D Focus

March 24, 2010

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(FIS) The Ceara Nucleus Foundation of Industrial Technology (NUTEC) is moving forward with a project that will transform it into a pioneer in the research of biodiesel production from tilapia entrails. For Fernando Pedro Dias, a researcher at NUTEC, the advantage in producing this type of biodiesel is that it does not depend on the use of byproducts apt for food production, but rather on fish discards.

Within the framework of this project, the Biodiesel Reference Laboratory (LARBIO) is in charge of gathering, storing and producing the biodiesel.

“The research with tilapia arises as an alternative to using the raw material of fish that does not serve as food, ”Pedro Dias explained.

…According to the experts, the only obstacle in producing this type of biofuel is the approval of the Biopeixe Project, necessary for the financing of the construction of a factory to extract fish oil from the entrails of fish.

According to LARBIO coordinator Jackson Malveira, the project was sent to the Northeast Bank of Brazil and it is in the phase of analysis. READ MORE

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