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Problem Statement
TESCO Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia is selling a large volume of wet food, which mainly consisted of meat and fish section and fruit and vegetables section. According to the manager, about 300 kg of food is disposed per day, where vegetables, meat and fish consist of 50%, 25% and 25% respectively. The manager kept their method of disposing the expired items as private and confidential. Nevertheless, as a team of chemical engineers, we try to find several environmental friendly, yet cost effective ways to convert these waste into wealth.
LITERATURE REVIEW
There are sevral ways to turn these wastes into useful product such as:
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Transesterification of animal oil into biodiesel
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Acidogenic Fermentation
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Green adsorption (Vegetable wastes as bioadsorbents for wastewater treatment)
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Biomethanation (process of turning organics into methane by anerobes.
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DECISION
Transesterification is selected as our technology based on the following reason:
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Alternative energy
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Low emission of Greenhouse Gases
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Technology suppported by government policy under biodiesel programme
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Various studies done by researchers and proved by various successful companies
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Process Operating Condition
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