biofuel

[venus may]

I have a project it is about biofuel our problem is red palm weevil larvae
as a biofuel my question is what is the present chemical component does the fuel had .... because i need it to know if what would the processes that would i do during we conduct our experiment,.......................
thank ypu...

[hhemken]

venus may,

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want to know how to generate biofuel from the weevil itself, something the weevil produces, or from the weevil plus the damaged plant material?

Biofuels tend to be either ethanol or biodiesel. Ethanol can be produced by fermenting plant sugars dissolved in water, then distilling off the ethanol. The distillation can be dangerous since ethanol is flammable. Sometimes the plant material can be treated with organisms and/or enzymes to convert cellulose into sugars that can be fremented to produce more ethanol (research this). See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofuels

Biodiesel usually involves converting fats from triglycerides into fatty acid esters of short chain alcohols (research this). See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel

A search on google using these keywords:

"red palm weevil" biofuel

yielded this article:

http://www.algaeiguanasandpies.net/

It indicates that these weevils 1) grow quickly and in large quantities, and 2) have a high fat content. If so, then in principle they might be used as a source for biodiesel. The article also indicates that they have a high protein content and are used for food. If the protein could be separated from the fat and used as a food supplement, and the fat used for biofuel production, then local industry might be able to kill two birds with one stone.

Please let us know more details about your project.

Thanks!

[venus may]

thank you for the answer that you sent to me ...... My project is all about red palm larvae as a biofuel this our project proposal the problem is i did not know what is the chemical components that it have to be the base that it has some possiblities that it can be a biofuel the only base that we had is that this organism eats wood then the woods is proven that is used to be a fuel. so please sent me some information aboutthis organism....
for clarification this the larvae of red palm weevil

thank you

[hhemken]

Venus may,

I think I answered your question. If I did not, could you please clarify it?

Please look at the web pages I mentioned in my previous post. They provide information about the chemical composition of both biofuels and weevil larvae.

The fact that they eat wood, and wood is also used as fuel is not important. What is important, as far as I can understand from your questions, is what chemical components in the weevils can be used to produce biofuel. Is that the case?