ESWLiquidSOLAR Vegetable Oil as a Fuel Alternative

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ESW-LiquidSOLARVegetable Oil as a Fuel
Alternative

• Kevin Huang, Lydia Loh, Eun-Young Pak, Rachel
  Shanley, Maggie Tang, James Teed, Jeffrey Wu
• CEE 492
• Monday, October 3, 2005

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A Serious Problem Exists
WE ARE HERE!
C.J. Campbell and J.H. Laherrere, The End of
Cheap Oil, Scientific American, 1998.
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and Its Not Getting Better
Oil
Renewables
Energy Information Administration US Department
of Energy
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Whats The Solution?
LiquidSOLAR.org
ESW-LiquidSOLAR Spring 2005
Waste Vegetable Oil as Fuel!
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Outline

• Motivations Benefits
• Objectives
• Background Past Work
• Work Plan Schedule
• Required Resources
• The Team

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Motivations and Benefits

• Help alleviate oil-dependence
• WVO is plentiful
• 3 billion gallons annually
• Environmentally friendly
• Reduces PM, CO
• Comparable performance
• Mileage and power
• Cheaper!

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The Problems

• How to efficiently and effectively clean WVO?
• Oil Filtration Team
• How to quickly and easily get a lot of it?
• Oil Collection Team

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Objectives Oil Filtration
SHORT-TERM
LONG-TERM

• Reconstruct settling tank
• Optimize/redesign
• Codes compliance
• Oil transfer procedure
• Data acquisition
• Results analysis
• Effective?
• Efficient?

• Long-term data
• Efficiency optimization
• Other methods
• Standards for oil as fuel

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Objectives Oil Collection
SHORT-TERM
LONG-TERM

• Research
• Past work
• Source list
• Marketing strategy
• Supplemental matl
• Distributor database
• Collaborations
• Survey!
• Standard collection procedures

• Collection efficiency amounts
• Alternate sources
• Profitable
• Ease of use

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Background Oil Filtration

• Passive settling
• Several weeks
• Must be warm
• Filters
• Successive
• Gravity and inline
• Down to 5 microns

• Centrifugation
• Fuel purifiers

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RCI Technologies
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Background Oil Collection

• Current LiquidSOLAR sources
• CTB-Triphammer, Sindbads, CT Pizza, Just a
  Taste, Les Ducs
• 80 gallons/month
• LiquidSOLAR flyers/brochures
• LiquidSOLAR website
• Previous contacts
• Appel, RPCC, WSH, Maxies, Hong Kong

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Work Schedule Oil Filtration
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Work Schedule Oil Collection
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Required Resources (I)
ALREADY HAVE or CAN OBTAIN

• Transportation for surveying
• Software for database
• Straw bales
• Storage and settling tanks
• Transparent plastic sheeting
• Tools

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Required Resources (II)
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Team Organization
Other Roles Corporate Liaison - James
Teed Presentation Coordinator - Kevin
Huang Proposal Editor - Lydia Loh Webmaster Jo
Pak Financial Manager Rachel Shanley
LIQUIDSOLAR FALL 2005
Team Leader Kevin Huang
Filtration Team Maggie Tang Lydia Loh Kevin Huang
Collection Team James Teed Jeff Wu Rachel
Shanley Jo Pak
Corporate Partner Mark Wienand
Faculty Advisor Norm Scott
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Team Background (I)

• Rachel Shanley
• M.Eng
• Management experience
• RPCC Dining
• Minor
• Relationship with Cornell Dining
• Kevin Huang
• Management experience
• ESC President
• Research
• Fine particle dispersions and complex fluids
• Stability and sedimentation phenomena

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Team Background (II)

• Lydia Loh
• BEE
• Coursework
• Heat transfer
• Biology and chemistry
• James Teed
• Industry experience
• Environmental engineering option
• Maggie Tang
• Interests in developing sustainable energy
  sources
• AutoCAD experience

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Team Background (III)

• Eun-Young (Jo) Pak
• Previous ESW-LiquidSOLAR experience
• Particular interests in publicity and persuasion
• Jeffrey Wu
• Engineering Management minor
• Community service experience
• Red Cross
• Adopt-A-Highway
• Habitat for Humanity

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Why Should You Care?

• oil consumption oil source Fuel
  crisis
• WVO alternative
• Cheap
• Clean
• High performance
• Plentiful
• Settling Tank
• Marketing Strategy
• Experienced Team