Students try to streamline oil conversion to biodiesel

Nov 4 2009 Karessa Weir No Comments

(OH) Toledo Blade - Students at Toledo Technology Academy are creating a machine to automatically turn used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel for a car. 

 

The technology to create such fuel exists, but not in an easy-to-use, automatic machine like the one the students designed. 

“The dream is you can walk up to the processor, hit a button, and 24 to 36 hours later you have biodiesel without any further effort,” student Will Scharer, 17, said. More

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