Porcine petroleum
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'''Porcine [[petroleum]]''', also known as "[[pig]] crude", is a [[crude oil]] chemically engineered by man to behave and function similar to [[diesel]] fuel.
A team at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] including Professor [[Yuanhui Zhang]], a bio-environmental [[engineer]], discovered a breakthrough method for converting raw pig waste (manure) into a form of crude oil.
A typical pig produces about 6 [[gallon]]s of waste a day.<ref>[http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/33951/producing_oil_from_pig_manure.html Producing Oil from Pig Manure - Associated Content<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> With further research, large-scale chemical processing in a refinery-style environment could help the [[United States]] process millions of gallons of "pig crude" per day, making the nation much less dependent on foreign sources of oil.
Currently, no research has been conducted to determine how current [[commercial vehicles]] could operate on this type of fuel.
==References==
*[http://www.wistech.org/2006/05/illinois_style_.html Wisconsin Advanced Technology Advocates Article]
*[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0701_040702_pigoil.html National Geographic Article]
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