UAEU research team extracts oils from date seeds to make biofuels

UAEU research team extracts oils from date seeds to make biofuels

A research team, UAEU was able to accomplish a qualitative research project to extract the largest possible quantity of date seeds' oils for the biofuel industry. This project completed within two years and at a cost of one million dirhams, and it published in top ranked journals.For his part, Dr. Emad Eldeen Elnajjar, an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and a chair of the Research Team, confirmed that the research findings was valuable for utilizing 100 percent of date seeds waste in the UAE.Dr. Emad Eldeen Elnajjar pointed out that the chief 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 can be extracted. As well as methane gas , carbon monoxide gas and the remaining product from the waste as the key component of charcoal. that has numerous practical and industrial applications, and thus 100 percent of the date seeds can be used. As there are more than