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Mohammad Jaafar Taherzadeh, Professor of bioprocess technology in Swedish Center of Resource Recovery, University of Boras in Sweden, briefed IRNA on processing of agricultural waste and other residues to bio-fuels and valuable material and said it is a complicated project, featuring several phases.

He said what's of importance is facilitation of the procedures and lowering the cost.

He added that his project mainly aims to design efficient and cheap process for production of valuable products. 

The scientists said the wastes can be converted to feedstock and biopolymers.

'For instance, we throw away the clothe of no use; but based on the new methods, it can be converted to the products which can be eaten, smelling and tasting like meat. Though seeming dreamy, the idea is possible. For the time being, we can turn food wastes into biogases at the industrial level and then turn the gas into the CNG fuel. Production of the second generation of ethanol fuel is in the industrial phase.'

Taherzadeh said his project also allows turning agricultural waste and urban garbage into feedstock and food for human beings as well as into plastic.

The Iranian professor, who has been working on the project for about 16 to 17 years, said the final product depends on the user's choice and the process features studying the raw material and type of molecules and atoms initially to see to what products they can be converted. 'Of course, some of them may take about several hours, several days or several months to be produced.'

He advised people to be serious in separating urban garbage because any of the wastes can be a pure substance for production of their favorite valuable item. 

The research project of Dr. Taherzadeh was introduced and praised in the 29th International Khwarazmi Festival as a second top fundamental research in the section of Iranian researchers living abroad.

Source: IRNA