| Complex Processing of Animal Waste Fats into Valuable Products with Regard to the Economic Aspects Jiri Pecha1; Lubomir Sanek1; Karel Kolomaznik2; Veronika Matusu3; Vladimir Dostal2; Jakub Husar3; 1TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN, FACULTY OF APPLIED INFORMATICS, CEBIA-TECH, Zlin, Czech Republic; 2TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN, Zlin, Czech Republic; 3TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLíN, FACULTY OF APPLIED INFORMATICS, Zlin, Czech Republic; PAPER: 89/Recycling/Regular (Oral) SCHEDULED: 11:55/Mon. 28 Nov. 2022/Arcadia 2 ABSTRACT: <p>The slaughterhouses generate a large amount of wastes - byproducts. One of them is waste fatty tissue. Fatty tissues from animals are composed of essentially three main components – water, fat and also proteins. These byproducts can be further processed and well utilized for various applications. [1, 2] It is reasonable to find appropriate utilization especially for byproducts which are not suitable or profitable for utilization in food. Waste animal fats rank among raw materials that can be used for biodiesel production and the processed protein can be used as plants biostimulant. Biodiesel, which can be used in diesel engine, is usually produced from animal fat or vegetable oil by transesterification reaction, in the presence of suitable catalyst and reactants – methanol or ethanol. [3] Protein hydrolysates represent significant category of plant biostimulants and organic nitrogen fertilizers based on a mixture of peptides and amino acids that have received increasing attention due to their positive impact on plant metabolism and crop performance. [4, 5] The goal of our work was to suggest complex processing of the animal waste fat into mentioned valuable products. The processing technology included melting of the raw fatty waste whereas water was evaporated and obtained fat was used as a feedstock for transesterification into biodiesel. The reaction conditions were set at: 1.5% w/w of TMAH as a catalyst, reaction temperature at the reaction mixture boiling point, the feedstock to methanol molar ratio of 1:6, respectively, and the reaction time 210 min. Depending on the composition of the input raw material, the processing of the protein fraction of waste fat was also verified. The raw material has been subjected to hydrolysis catalysed by proteolytic enzyme (alcalase). The final biodiesel fulfills the key requirements prescribed by European standard EN 14 214. The production of protein hydrolysate that can be used as organic nitrogen fertilizer or plant biostimulant is a suitable way of processing the protein fraction lost during fat refining, which also contributed to the overall economy of the process. The overall results served as a basis for technical and economy assessment of the waste processing.</p> References: <p>[1] H. Sharma, M. Goswami, Int. J. Food Process. Technol. 4 (2013) p. 252. [2] I.H. Franke-Whittle, H. Insam, Crit. Rev. Microbiol. 39 (2013) 139‐151. [3] V.K. Booramurthy, R. Kasimani, D. Subramanian, S. Pandian, Fuel, 260 (2020) p. 116373. [4] G. Colla, S. Nardi, M. Cardarelli, A. Ertani, L. Lucini, R. Canaguier, Y. Rouphael, Sci. Hortic. 196 (2015) 28-38. [5] J. Pecha, T Furst, K. Kolomaznik, V. Friebrova, P. Svoboda, AIChE Journal 58 (2012) 2010-2019.</p> |
