From waste to food: Optimising the breakdown of oil palm waste to provide substrate for insects farmed as animal feed.

ABSTRACT: Waste biomass from the palm oil industry is currently burned as a means of disposal and solutions are required to reduce the environmental impact. Whilst some waste biomass can be recycled to provide green energy such as biogas, this investigation aimed to optimise experimental conditions for recycling palm waste into substrate for insects, farmed as a sustainable high-protein animal feed. NMR spectroscopy and LC-HRMS were used to analyse the composition of palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) under experimental conditions optimised to produce nutritious substrate rather than biogas. Statistical pattern recognition techniques were used to investigate differences in composition for various combinations of pre-processing and anaerobic digestion (AD) methods. Pre-processing methods included steamin

SUBMITTER: Dickinson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837394 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature