Shrimp Shells Can Help The Production of Bio-diesel
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Shrimp shells could accelerate the production of fuel. This was revealed in the results of research done by scientists.
Shrimp Shells Can Help The Production of Bio-diesel
Along with increased attention to global warming and dwindling natural resources derived from fossil fuels, more and more effort to use renewable fuels such as bio-diesel to meet the demand for energy needs.
Bio-diesel production process itself requires a catalyst to enhance chemical reaction that converts soybeans, canola flowers and other plants that can produce oil, into diesel fuel.
So far there is no catalyst that can be used again, must be neutralized first with plenty of water, resulting in well water contaminated waste in significant amounts.
Now scientists in China have developed a new catalyst is made from shrimp shells that it can change the speed of production bio-diesel, even cheaper, and the process is more environmentally friendly.
Scientists at the Hua Zhong University in Wuhan, China, and their coworkers initially heat the shrimp shells for several hours. Then they keep the surface with potassium fluoride, so that is the catalyst. When tested in the laboratory, the thin shells of shrimp that have changed the oil into bio-diesel from canola flowers become faster and more efficiently than when using a catalyst of the old material. Evidently, about 89% changed within three hours.
This new catalyst can also be reused and in the process produces little pollution and waste.
Read this article in indonesian : cangkang udang membantu produksi biodisel
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