Biodiesel synthesis from swine manure

Minyoung Kim; Sungyup Jung; Dong-Jun Lee; Kun-Yi Andrew Lin; Young Jae Jeon; Jörg Rinklebe; Naomi B Klinghoffer; Eilhann E Kwon

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124032

Biodiesel synthesis from swine manure

Bioresour Technol. 2020 Dec:317:124032. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124032. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Authors

Minyoung Kim¹, Sungyup Jung¹, Dong-Jun Lee², Kun-Yi Andrew Lin³, Young Jae Jeon⁴, Jörg Rinklebe⁵, Naomi B Klinghoffer⁶, Eilhann E Kwon⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea.
² Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea; Department of Animal Environment, National Institute of Animal Science, Wanju 55365, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Environmental Engineering & Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture & Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Nanotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo-Kuang Road, Taichung, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea.
⁵ Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea; Soil- and Groundwater-Management, Institute of Foundation Engineering, Water and Waste Management, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285 Wuppertal, Germany.
⁶ Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, London N6A 5B9, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea. Electronic address: ekwon74@sejong.ac.kr.

PMID: 32829119
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124032

Abstract

This study demonstrates that the biodiesel (BD) from swine manure (SM) could be a promising way for large scale generation of biofuel. Also, the economic and environmental benefits of SM derived BD were evaluated. Transesterification of lipid contents extracted from the collected SM had low BD yield (14.2 wt%) using H₂SO₄ catalyst due to high acid value and impurities. However, thermo-chemical non-catalytic transesterification with a porous material showed 94.7 wt% yield of BD from the lipid in SM. Considering the current population of swine, the annual production of BD from SM was estimated. The SM derived BD could cover 19.7 and 46.8 wt% of BD currently produced in both Korea and the USA with the economic benefits of up to $96 million and $2.1 billion, respectively. The proposed approach also can save vast arable lands needed to cultivate oil-bearing feedstocks for BD production.

Keywords: Biodiesel; Swine manure; Transesterification; Waste valorization; Waste-to-energy.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biofuels*
Catalysis
Esterification
Manure*
Republic of Korea
Swine

Substances

Biofuels
Manure