UAEU research team extracts date seed oil to make biofuels

  • Date: 27-Dec-2020
  • Source: Saudi Gazette
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:UAE
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UAEU research team extracts date seed oil to make biofuels

ALAIN — A research team from the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) was able to accomplish a qualitative research project to extract the largest possible quantity of date seeds' oils for the biofuel industry.The project was completed within two years at a cost of one million dirhams, and it is published in top ranked journals.Commenting on the achievement, Dr. Emad Eldeen Elnajjar, an associate professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and a chair of the research team, said that the research findings was valuable for utilizing 100 percent of date seeds waste in the UAE.Dr. Elnajjar pointed out that the goal is to examine the possibility of principal use of the largest possible amount of oils resulting from date seeds in the biofuel industry.The study found that 90 percent of the output of date seeds waste after oil extraction is used in the pyrolysis process, so that fuel such as hydrogen gas, methane gas, carbon monoxide gas and the remaining product from the waste as the key