BK Sharma at ISTC identified these specifications for IBI to meet.
1) B6751 for B100
2) B7467 for B6 to B20
BK Sharma at ISTC identified these specifications for IBI to meet.
1) B6751 for B100
2) B7467 for B6 to B20
The UIUC Biodiesel Initiative (or Illinois Biodiesel Initiative) is a project that evolved from Engineers Without Borders and has collected Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) from dining halls on campus in order to convert it to biodiesel fuel. This fuel has been used by campus vehicles at the Facilities & Services (F&S) Garage and Car Pool since spring of 2006.
The team designed a 400 gallon batch biodiesel processor at the Illinois Sustainable Techology Center (ISTC), which allowed them to process all of the available WVO on campus (around 300 gallons per week). Funding to build this processor came from the Student Sustainability Committee, the Cozad Design Competition, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the Engineering Design Council. As of 2012, the organization was asked to relocate from ISTC and has since been working with several campus stakeholders to restart operations.
The organization has been donated two 50 gallon BioPro 190 biodiesel reactors for smaller batch scale production, as well as working to negotiate use of upcoming pilot plant space at the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory (IBRL) in the summer of 2016.
Currently, the project is focused on the following efforts:
The Illinois Biodiesel Initiative was started as an effort in reusing waste and reducing campus emissions and has been run by students since its founding. Being student-driven, a major part of the the operation has been to educate more student about biodiesel usage and recycling and to get more students involved in the group's efforts. The organization has seeked all kinds of students that have an interest in sustainability on campus and desire hands-on experience. In addition to biodiesel production, IBI has had several officers working with smaller groups of students on more specific sub-projects (such as soap research, production of soap, business modeling, and outreach).