Biodiesel
Biodiesel is a clean burning liquid fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources like soybeans, sunflowers, and even from recycled cooking oils or animal fats. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modification. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur & aromatics. Biodiesel reduces serious air pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and other air toxins. Biodiesel can be made simply and has been for over a hundred years. Biodiesel can be used as a cleaner-burning vehicle fuel and a source for residential or commercial heating.
March 27 Biodiesel 201 Intermediate
The Biodiesel People at Sundays Energy will be teaching Biodiesel 201 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm on March 27. The cost of the event is $38.
The second class in our series. Biodiesel 201 is the introduction to hands-on biodiesel. We show the basic chemistry of biodiesel, making several batches onsite. The "sample batch" process is an integral part of home biodiesel production and is a simple, visible illustration of what is going on in any biodiesel reactor.
- Biodiesel Chemistry - Introduction to Transesterification
- Sample Batches which illustrate potential pitfalls of the biodiesel process
- Parameters for experimentation
- Safety orientation
Biodiesel Workshops
Workshops are taught by the Biodiesel People and Sundays Energy, design-builders of the IATP reactor, with 4 years experience in biodiesel production and use.
Sundays Energy
Sundays Energy Community Company (SECC) endeavors to bring together individuals and organizations that feel passionately about doing what they can to help the earth and the creatures living on it. Sundays Energy helps enable others to become part of this undertaking in their own unique way, to realize the personal and community-wide benefits from working and living sustainably.
