It points to the current use of this process at a Conagra turkey processing facility in Carthage, Missouri, where a «20 million commercial - scale facility» is beginning to convert
turkey offal into «a variety of useful products, from fertilizer to low - sulfur diesel fuel» at a potential average cost of «about 72 cents per gallon.»
Each day 200 tons of
turkey offal will be carted to be transformed into various useful products, including 600 barrels of light oil.
Thermal depolymerization, Appel says, has proved to be 85 percent energy efficient for complex feedstocks, such as
turkey offal: «That means for every 100 Btus in the feedstock, we use only 15 Btus to run the process.»
The thermal conversion plant turns
turkey offal into low - sulfur oil that is carted off by three tanker trucks daily.