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Benefits of Biodiesel Use on the UWRF Campus
Students:
- Educational opportunity to teach students about biofuels on campus.
- Students can use the byproduct, glycerin, to make other marketable products such as soap.
Environment:
- Biodiesel is nontoxic, 10 times less than table salt.
- Biodiesel degrades 4 times faster then petroleum diesel.
- Biodiesel produces 78.5% less Carbon Dioxide emissions than petroleum diesel.
- Biodiesel has the highest energy balance of any fuel.
Source: www.biodiesel.org
Campus:
- The campus no longer needs to pay for disposal of Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) from the University Center kitchen fryers.
- Contributes to the sustainability effort on campus.
- Contributes to campus goal of being “off-the-grid” by 2012.
- The summer of 2008 the campus powered a portion of its lawn mowers by using 100% biodiesel produced at UWRF.
- In fall of 2008, the campus started using blends of biodiesel and petroleum to power the tractors at the lab farms.
The hope for the future is that we can extend usage of biodiesel to the snow sweepers in the winter.
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