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Study of Biofuel Animal Manure

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A pursuit of different fuel sources to decrease humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels in the engineering industry in this day and age is becoming more and more critical. Earth only has a finite amount of fossil fuel, and eventually, it dries up. The goal of this research is to explore the feasibility of using biochemistry to convert organic waste into usable fuel. The organic waste contains hydrogen and carbon-based molecules, and two methods of chemical reactions can be implemented to transform these molecules into usable, combustible fuel: pyrolysis and gasification.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, USA

    Ryoichi S. Amano & Mohamed Saeed Ibrahim Hussein

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Ashwani K. Gupta

  2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ashoke De

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Suresh K. Aggarwal

  4. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Abhijit Kushari

  5. Analytic & Computational Research, Inc. (ACRi), The CFD Innovators, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Akshai Runchal

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Amano, R.S., Hussein, M.S.I. (2020). Study of Biofuel Animal Manure. In: Gupta, A., De, A., Aggarwal, S., Kushari, A., Runchal, A. (eds) Innovations in Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Environment. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9012-8_23

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