A research team manages to make a biofuel from orange skins
A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has used residues from the fruit industry to extract orange oil and analyzed its potential as a fuel for bioreactors. “The results obtained demonstrate that said oil is a viable alternative to be mixed by up to 15% with jet fuel, without any significant inconvenience to
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