Our work with Biodiesel:

Two students, Matt and Steven worked through the 2005-2006 school year in a directed study course (Organic Chemistry) researching properties of biodiesel.

They continued work that I started as part of the GIFT program at UGA working with the Engineering Outreach.

They've made biodiesel from several feedstocks (canola oil, soybean oil, and crude peanut oil) and they compared the biodiesel samples to petroleum diesel #2.

We were able to take them to UGA to use some equipment in their testing. They used the bomb calorimeter to measure heats of combustion and they used the viscometer to check the viscosities of the biodiesel fuel. They also used Vernier Probes and software here at school to construct cooling curves of the fuels to measure cloud and pour points.

All, in all, they found Canola biodiesel to be the best overall.

Read their findings in their science fair lab report

 

• Cover

• Abstract

• Research Plan

• Introduction

  

• Materials and Procedure

• Discussion

• Conclusion

• Diagrams

• Appendix

• References

• Acknowledgements

 

 

 

Biodiesel Papers:

•  Biodiesel and Its Properties

•  Environmental Impacts of Biodiesel