Czech research team announces new method for turning tanning waste into biofuel
16/03/2015
The team at the university, named after footwear manufacturer Tomas Bata, who founded his first factory in Zlín in 1894, found that the vegetable oils and fat content present in tannery waste represented inexpensive raw material for producing biofuel.
Professor Karel Kolomazník, who led the research team, has said the key to the method he and his colleagues came up with is to replace the glycerol content in the fat with “a simple methyl alcohol”. In his opinion, this method will make it easier, quicker and cheaper to transform tanning waste into biofuel. With earlier methods, he has said, the process of removing fatty acids and proteins from the solid waste, took too long and was too costly.
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