Thursday- Today we removed the glycerin from our bottles. When we got to school on Thursday, we saw that our fuel had separated. The substance at the bottom of the bottle was glycerin and the top was our biodiesel fuel. We took our bottles to a "sludge bucket" and squeezed the glycerin out of the bottle. Remember that our fuel had been separated up side down. Removing the glycerin was really disgusting and it smelled really bad. Once all of the glycerin was out, we quickly put our caps back on and we were done for that day. We would let our bottles sit out again over night.
Friday- After letting our bottles sit out again for another night, we poured our fuel into 500ml beakers. We poured the fuel from our bottles into the beakers very slowly so that we would not get any left over glycerin into the beakers. Once that was finished, we washed our bottles out and poured the fuel back into the bottles. That was our finished product. It was ready to be put in a bus.
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