Today In Class (May 17, 2011)

      Today in class our teacher ,Miss.Rioux, told our class that she did not have enough sodium hydroxide for everyone. So instead everyone split into groups and started getting ready for class tomorrow. Our group got all the bottles from our class period and filled it with 1 liter of useable vegetable oil. The other group got on the computers and tried to look up a place where we could dump the sludge (the glycrin and animal fat). Two students in that group found a place at Georgia Tech and tried to call. When they first tried to call them, the person who worked at Georgia Tech hung up on them. We thought she hung up because she probably thought we were just messing around and prank calling random numbers. They called again and she ended up hanging up again. The third time we called I think they used a different phone to call. They did not give us much information so our teacher told us that she would email that company. In the fuel we noticed that when we left the fuel in the beakers, the top of the fuel had a transparent looking cover on the top. We are not sure why this happened, but it might have happened because there is not there was no covering on the top of the beaker so the air could have made the top part of the fuel dry up. I think we are getting close because before we started making the fuel we watched a video tutorial on how to make the biodiesel, and we followed all the measurements and the directions. We should test to see if the fuel will work by maybe using an old junk car and fill the gas tank with the oil we have made.