Hawaii to Pilot Papaya-to-Biofuels Project
April 17, 2013News article: http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/8860/hawaii-invests-in-papaya-to-biofuel-project
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The state of Hawaii (USA) has invested $200,000 into a conversion project that seeks to produce biofuels and animal feed using papaya as feedstock.
The said project, a joint venture with Florida-based Biotork Hawaii LLC via its Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Centre, aims to develop an economically sustainable zero waste conversion project producing biofuel and high protein animal feed from unmarketable papaya. The conversion process will use an optimized technology developed and patented by BioTork.
With this technology, farmers can turn agricultural waste into an additional revenue stream, and local production of biofuel can lower dependence on Hawaii's import of fossil fuels. The conversion technology can also be applied to other identifiable feedstocks in Hawaii such as unmarketable sweet potato, sugar cane, mango, and invasive trees like albizia.
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