OIT Students Look At Ways to Clean Waste Vegetable Oil into Fuel
Aaron Findley, a student at Oregon Institute of Technology in Southeast Portland, has devised a way to filter and clean used vegetable oil for use in cars and trucks that run on diesel.The project, called the automated biodiesel reactor was one of many student presentations featured at OIT’s 2009 Student Project Symposium. A wide array of renewable energy, information technology and mechanical engineering projects were included.
However, the project is in the early stages, which can produce about 25 gallons of biodiesel at a time. The system separates glycerol from the used vegetable oil in one tank and then further cleanses it in an adjacent tank.The end product would be high-grade biodiesel that meets national American Society for Testing and Materials standards. The energy needed to run the biodiesel reactor would come from solar panels.The advantages of this biodiesel reactor is that it would be far cheaper than others on the market, which cost around $200,000.
However, the project is in the early stages, which can produce about 25 gallons of biodiesel at a time. The system separates glycerol from the used vegetable oil in one tank and then further cleanses it in an adjacent tank.The end product would be high-grade biodiesel that meets national American Society for Testing and Materials standards. The energy needed to run the biodiesel reactor would come from solar panels.The advantages of this biodiesel reactor is that it would be far cheaper than others on the market, which cost around $200,000.
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