Utilization of waste chicken fat for production of Fatty acid methyl ester: Waste to Energy

Biodiesel has emerged as a promising alternative to combat the crisis of energy security and global warming. The dominant feedstocks for its production, i.e vegetable oils, are expensive as well as have their own share of constraints and problems such as social and economic constraints. Research in this field is now mainly focused on reducing the cost of biodiesel production by using lower cost feedstocks. One such possibility is to use waste animal fat, which is otherwise considered useless and contributes to pollution. The present study focuses on the various methods for production of biodiesel from waste chicken fat, analyzing various parameters affecting its production and physiochemical properties of biodiesel thus obtained.