- By-product
A by-product is a secondary or incidental product deriving from a
manufacturing process, achemical reaction or a biochemical pathway, and is not the primary product or service being produced. A by-product can be useful andmarket able, or it can have negativeecological impact.Major by-products
Animal sources
*dried
blood andblood meal - fromslaughterhouse operations
*chicken by-product meal - clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, and intestines.
*chrome shavings - from a stage ofleather manufacture
*collagen andgelatin - from the boiled skin and other parts of slaughtered livestock
*feather s - frompoultry processing
*lanolin - from the cleaning ofwool
*manure - fromanimal husbandry
*meat and bone meal - from the rendering of animal bones andoffal
*poultry byproduct and poultry meal - made from unmarketable poultry bones and offal
*poultry litter - swept from the floors of chicken coops
*whey - fromcheese manufacturing
*fetal pigs Vegetation
*acidulated
soap stock - from the refining of vegetable oil
*bran and germ - from the milling ofwhole grain s into refined grains
*brewer's yeast - fromethanol fermentation
*cornstover - residual plant matter after harvesting ofcereal s
*distillers grains - fromethanol fermentation
*glycerol - from the production ofbiodiesel
*grape seed oil - recovered from leftovers of the winemaking process
*molasses - from sugar refining
*orange oil and other citrus oils - recovered from the peels of processed fruit
*pectin - recovered from the remains of processed fruit
*sawdust andbark - from the processing of logs intolumber
*straw - from grain harvestingMinerals and petro chemicals
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asphalt - from the refining ofcrude oil
*fly ash - from the combustion ofcoal
*slag - fromore refining
*gypsum - fromFlue gas desulfurization
*ash andsmoke - from the combustion of fuel
*mineral oil - from refining crude oil to produce gasoline
*salt - fromdesalination Other
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sludge - from wastewater treatmentee also
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By-product synergy
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