Biodiesel from Chicken Fat - Diesel Forum

newtodieseling · 01-31-2006, 08:59 AM

Any body see the article in this months Successful Farming magazine about making diesel from chicken fat? Univ of Arkansas has come up with a way to take chicken fat and turn it into glycerin and diesel. I tried finding the link online, but can't find it.

BlueMule · 01-31-2006, 10:43 AM

http://mt.engr.uark.edu/news/archive...earchers_2.htm

angst · 01-31-2006, 04:53 PM

I had always assumed that the commercially available B20 in my town came from a combo of virgin non food grade and recaptured restruant oils. I found out at a recent meeting that I sat in on of the ETCFC.org that most of the Biodiesel component of the B20 in this area is from chicken fat. No, it does not smell like fried chicken. I wish it did.

newtodieseling · 02-02-2006, 07:45 PM

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I had always assumed that the commercially available B20 in my town came from a combo of virgin non food grade and recaptured restruant oils. I found out at a recent meeting that I sat in on of the ETCFC.org that most of the Biodiesel component of the B20 in this area is from chicken fat. No, it does not smell like fried chicken. I wish it did.

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I thought this was pretty new? If it is "tried and true" then I am more comfortable with it. Anyone have an article on exactly how/where they get the fat from the chicken? Is it a bi-product of the slaughtering process or the butchering proces?

Seafarer12 · 02-03-2006, 08:29 AM

They probably just render it from scraps like they use to do with hogs and beef back in the good old days when french fries tasted good.

Nebraska_Farmer · 02-03-2006, 10:07 AM

Most of the fat comes from rendering the chicken guts for animal feed. I have see bio made from beef tallow and it was a little bit cloudy at room temp. It would work blended down though. Kurt