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Sunday Gazette-Mail - News: "Just replacing fossil fuels with alternatives won’t save the environment, said Sally Shepherd, president of WVBioFuels/Renewables Co-op.
“We have to conserve, and biodiesel is just one of the aspects of that,” she said.
On Saturday at West Virginia State University, Shepherd and WVBioFuels held a public demonstration and meeting about alternative fuel and power sources, including biodiesel and solar power, as part of the National Day of Climate Action.
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Inside a small shed at West Virginia State University’s Bioplex Project site is a small biodiesel manufacturing setup, opened by the co-op in October.
The 110-gallon reactor takes used cooking oil collected from area restaurants and institutions and turns it into biodiesel, which is used by co-op members to run diesel engines.
Lou Kapicak of the Mid-Atlantic Technology Research and Innovation Center, or MATRIC, has been helping the co-op with the production of the fuel.
In the reactor, used cooking oil is infused with methanol, the pumps are turned on and the oil separates, leaving biodiesel on the top and glycerin on the bottom, Kapicak said."
“We have to conserve, and biodiesel is just one of the aspects of that,” she said.
On Saturday at West Virginia State University, Shepherd and WVBioFuels held a public demonstration and meeting about alternative fuel and power sources, including biodiesel and solar power, as part of the National Day of Climate Action.
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Inside a small shed at West Virginia State University’s Bioplex Project site is a small biodiesel manufacturing setup, opened by the co-op in October.
The 110-gallon reactor takes used cooking oil collected from area restaurants and institutions and turns it into biodiesel, which is used by co-op members to run diesel engines.
Lou Kapicak of the Mid-Atlantic Technology Research and Innovation Center, or MATRIC, has been helping the co-op with the production of the fuel.
In the reactor, used cooking oil is infused with methanol, the pumps are turned on and the oil separates, leaving biodiesel on the top and glycerin on the bottom, Kapicak said."
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