Thursday, April 7, 2016

Biodiesel Lab

Today we started the first step in our main lab of this biodiesel unit! We created a mixture of biodiesel that will be used to power a put-put boat in a race. By placing a combination of used fryer oil and potassium hydroxide in a hot water bath, we produced a blend that will have to be separated later for pure biodiesel.
Fryer oil


Hot water bath


Finished solution

1 comment:

  1. These are some great pictures of your biodiesel. I really enjoyed this lab and thought it was cool being able to make our own fuel.

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