What if you could run your car with fuel from orange peel?
According to the posting of the Daily Express quoted autoevolution.com, Tuesday, September 20, 2011, reportedly when a British scientist managed to find a way to transform a simple skin into fuel capable of propeling the car.
Fuel from used cooking oil? or of corn oil? Maybe we've heard. What if you could run your car with fuel from orange peel?
Professor James Clark, the scientists found that high-powered microwaves from the microwave can break down the molecules in the skin to release the gas. This gas is then collected and distilled into a liquid pectin that can be converted into fuel.
In addition, James Clark says, this process can be used for other waste products that we produce every day such as hay, apple skins, coffee, or rice hulls.
In trials, James Clark to build a microwave worth 200 thousand pounds sterling in the laboratory Green Chemistry Center at the University of York. This tool can be used to process 30 pounds of orange peel.
Looks like now we have to think twice whether to use the skin to make cakes or produce their own fuel for automobiles.
"Waste orange peel is an excellent example of wasted resources. In Brazil, the world's largest producer of orange juice, half a citrus fruit that was left was a waste. Each year eight million tons per year of orange peel can be used to produce chemicals, materials , and fuel, "said James Clark.
