I have submitted my poster for the spring poster session and this is the first time I attend this conference. I am so excited to present my project that I have been working on this semester. I am submitting this project for UC invent competition too so cross finger !! Even though I have just been with this lab this semester, I have made a lot of great changes. This project suits me perfectly because it requires creativity in an intensive research project. The biodiesel project has been developed before I came but the soap project is a new project that I developed after I come here. This project have extended the used of the byproduct of biodiesel production and it contributes greatly to the whole environmental chemistry project. I am so excited to share this experience with you guys. This picture is the workflow of our project that I made for the UC invent competition. Check it out and let me know what you think about it !
Here is my introduction for the project at both conference:
The amount of waste cooking oil (WCO) available on campus is enormous. It is a waste to just discard all the oil, therefore, recycling is a necessary thing to do in order to save money. Our lab using WCO to produce biodiesel and soap to use for both research and daily purposes. The biodiesel project has been around for a while and we are now trying to find a new way to produce biodiesel more efficiently and less time consuming. Our new project just started year is to use the bi-product of biodiesel production which is glycerol and other wastes to make soap for daily use in lab. We are trying our best to purified glycerol after we make the soap because glycerol has a lot of application in medical field. Our goal for this project is that we can create a good system to get the glycerol, biodiesel and soap from WCO. We have successfully produced the soap from the bi-products of biodiesel production and we also have just been able to separate soap from glycerol after soap production. We are trying to get the better yield by trying multiple methods of separate to get the best quality of glycerol and the soap. Our soap right now is being used within the lab to clean glasswares and floor. We are doing pH measurement to confirm the pH value of our soap so that we can modified the pH value if needed next time. Hopefully when this project is complete we can have a good system to recycle WCO in large scale for multi-purposes within the lab.
update from the competition: We didn't win the competition but I am glad that we did try to make it to the last round. Thanks for all the support and we will continue to develop our methods and procedures to make it better to contribute for the university.
Here is my introduction for the project at both conference:
The amount of waste cooking oil (WCO) available on campus is enormous. It is a waste to just discard all the oil, therefore, recycling is a necessary thing to do in order to save money. Our lab using WCO to produce biodiesel and soap to use for both research and daily purposes. The biodiesel project has been around for a while and we are now trying to find a new way to produce biodiesel more efficiently and less time consuming. Our new project just started year is to use the bi-product of biodiesel production which is glycerol and other wastes to make soap for daily use in lab. We are trying our best to purified glycerol after we make the soap because glycerol has a lot of application in medical field. Our goal for this project is that we can create a good system to get the glycerol, biodiesel and soap from WCO. We have successfully produced the soap from the bi-products of biodiesel production and we also have just been able to separate soap from glycerol after soap production. We are trying to get the better yield by trying multiple methods of separate to get the best quality of glycerol and the soap. Our soap right now is being used within the lab to clean glasswares and floor. We are doing pH measurement to confirm the pH value of our soap so that we can modified the pH value if needed next time. Hopefully when this project is complete we can have a good system to recycle WCO in large scale for multi-purposes within the lab.
update from the competition: We didn't win the competition but I am glad that we did try to make it to the last round. Thanks for all the support and we will continue to develop our methods and procedures to make it better to contribute for the university.