Monday, May 16, 2011

Thursday and Friday cleaning oil

Thursday in class we started by taking our flipped bottles with methanol and sodium hydroxide and we opened the cap slowly. After that we started to squeeze the bottle very slowly and this gunk would start to come out. We are trying to separate some fat and other thing's from the oil. After we were finished with that we needed to clean the bottle's on the outside. So we washed the bottle's with soap. Once we were done with that we put our bottle's back on our spot right side up. We waited over night to do anything else. On Friday we got the oil and tried separating some more gunk fom the bottle's. Once we were done with that we poured the oil into beaker's. We tried to keep as much fat and other thing's out of the beaker. So we poured the oil very slowly. Once we were done putting the oil into a couple of beaker's we took two bottle's and poured the oil into the bottle using a funnel. After that we just put the cap back on then we just let it sit. After we are done with that have to put water in the bottle. This will get more oil out repeate this process a couple of times. This is the final product. It's real biodiesel!

3 comments:

  1. Good job! your summary was really informational!

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  2. What color was your oil? Was it murky or was it transparent?

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