High-quality fuel from food waste - investigation of a stepwise process from the perspective of technology development

• Main Authors: Yin, Ke, Li, Ling, Giannis, Apostolos, Weerachanchai, Piyarat, Ng, Bernard Jia Han, Wang, Jing-Yuan
• Other Authors: Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Food waste; Waste to energy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80503; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42158
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A stepwise process (SP) was developed for sustainable energy production from food waste (FW). The process comprised of hydrothermal treatment followed by oil upgrading. Synthetic food waste was primarily used as feedstock in the hydrothermal reactor under subcritical water conditions. The produced h...