BTC PTEC Biodiesel Workshop

1
BTC PTEC Biodiesel Workshop

• August, 2006

2
Workshop Schedule

• August 7
• 8 9 Introduction to Biodiesel (history,
  current situation, future) Speaker Tom
  Carleson
• 9 10 Chemical background and preparation of
  biodiesel fuel from feedstocks Speaker Tom
  Carleson
• 1015 1130 Feed stock types and measurement of
  feed stock and biodiesel physical properties
  Speaker Tom Carleson
• 1 2 Use of biodiesel in diesel engines
  Speaker Jeff Curtis
• 2 3 Processes for making biodiesel - Speaker
  L. Davis Clements
• 330 430 Government incentives and economics
  of biodiesel production - Speaker L. Davis
  Clements
• August 8
• 8 9 Feedstock and biodiesel quality
  Speaker Tom Carleson
• 9 10 Making your own biodiesel (obtaining
  feedstock, sources of information) Speaker
  Paul Davis
• 1015 1130 Making your own biodiesel
  (equipment, distribution, local sources,
  problems) Speaker Paul Davis
• 1 2 Tour of BTC biodiesel pilot plant
  (Building T) Tour guide Satpal Sidhu
• 2 4 Lab experiments (Haskell Chem Lab)
  making biodiesel from different feedstocks
  Facilitator Tom Carleson and Andrea Oleah
• 4 430 Workshop wrapup

3
In the classroom with Dave Clements
4
Dean Sidhu explaining the BTC Biodiesel pilot unit
5
Paul Davis explaining his biodiesel pilot unit
6
Tour of the BTC Biodiesel Pilot Plant
7
In the lab
8
Measuring free fatty acids
9
Making biodiesel
10
See, that wasnt so hard