Events that occured in Class Today 5/5/11

5/5/11
Today was day 2 of filtering the used vegetable oil. It went a lot smoother than day 1. We came up with more efficient ways to clean the oil. Ms. Roiux found some better hot plates that heated up faster and were hotter. We heated the filtered vegetable oil in pots instead of beakers to heat up larger amounts. Those two factors were a big help to our class. The only bad thing was that some of the outlets were not working and we didn't find that out until later on. I don't think we need to change anything for tomorrow though. Hopefully, more of the outlets will be working tomorrow so we can heat all of the oil and get it finished with. I think that we will get all of the filtered vegetable oil heated and we will be ready to make biodiesel with it.