Dr. John Abraham, a researcher from the Veterinary College and Research Institute in India, has developed processes that can extract bio-diesel from poultry carcasses in a cost-effective manner and reduce the amount of carcasses disposed of in an unhygenic manner.
Dr. Abraham devised two methods to extract bird fat. One method makes it possible to extract 97 percent of the bird’s fat and needs six birds to create a litre of diesel. Another method makes is possible to extract 63 percent of the bird’s fat and requires 16 birds for producing the same quantity of diesel, Dr. Abraham noted.
Dr. Abraham added that the bio-diesel could be used as a low-cost blend with diesel, which has been successfully tested and put to use. The quality assessment of bio-diesel from poultry carcass was done at the Center of Excellence in Bio-Fuel at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
