Last week we got to make biodiesel! It was a pretty easy lab, we took excess fryer oil from Chick-Fil
-A and measured 135mL of it into an erlenmeyer flask, then we added 32mL of KOH to the flask. Then we took a the flask and added it to the hot water bath, and let it heat for 20 minutes while keeping the temperature between 45-55 degrees celsius. Once it had heated we took it out of the hot water bath and poured it into a plastic cup to sit overnight. The next day we filtered out the KOH to be left with just the Biodiesel.
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| Pouring in the KOH |
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| Hot water bath! |
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| Viscosity Test! |
Your pictures are really cool and show the general idea of the lab really well! The lab was pretty fun and not as stressful as others.
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