Aspiring engineers of NED University claim to produced “environment-friendly bio diesel” from the waste and viscera of fishes which as per them could not alleviate air and marine life but also savr foreign exchange being spent on importing expensive diesel.
A group of Mechanical Engineering Department of final year achieved the feat including Muhammad Absar Ahmed, Zaki Ahmed, Talha Ahmed, and Huzaifa Iftikhar, under the supervision of Dr. Mehmood Ali, head of Environmental Engineering Department, within two months.
“Plant components are used to produce bio diesel, but we chose to use fish waste and entrails for the first time because it is readily available in bulk,” researcher Absar said while speaking to The Express Tribune. “In Pakistan, one million tons of fish and seafood is consumed annually which produces 350,000 tons of waste,” he further said, adding that this waste is dumped into the sea which pollutes the sea.
Absar further claimed that the 350,000 tons of fish waste could be used to produce 150,000 tons of oil or 100,000 tons of bio diesel which could be mixed with up to 20% of diesel produced in the refineries. “This will not only help in protecting environment but will also save foreign exchange required for import of diesel and crude oil.”
