2011_Veg_Oil_Alternatives

==**Waste Veggie Oil (WVO) Alternatives Group **==

Advisors: Erica Spiegel (UVM Recycling) Sam Gorton (Gund Institute)

Student Team: Myles Cox Liz Bennett Dan Reiss

**Meeting Calendar**
Next meeting is: Friday 2/4 at 2pm in Rosa Parks Room in Davis Center. Next meeting is: TBD, Dan will schedule/suggest times Meeting After Spring Break: Tues, March 15 at 1 PM

Draft of poster

**"To Do" List:**

 * Group to complete this inventory/interview questions with each Dining Hall manager
 * [|UVM-wvo-oil-inventory.xls] Here is spreadsheet with contact info and questions.
 * Miles will type up Survey Monkey school survey, and send the 'test' survey to group. Group to edit questions and survey and finalize before Erica can send to the Recycling Coordinators List at other schools
 * Read through the [|EREF solid waste research grant]guidelines. How complicated is application process? Here is the [|full Request for Proposal] Maybe group can suggest a long-range reserach project for grant funding. Can you relate this project to their [|grant funding priorities ?]

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 * FYI, this is the company [|Smart Fuel America (new hampshire)] where UVM oil is being sent now (since local biodiesel company shut down).
 * See articles below that Sam posted for us to read.
 * Systems! Start thinking about ways to draw the various "system" components of collection/process from the Fryolator to the final user of the waste oil. Sam will help with examples of how to draw systems.
 * Identify UVM people and professors (Engineering, Sustainable Ag) to interview about alternative uses for oil
 * Powerpoint from Erica regarding update on Waste Veg Oil. Click here. [|waste-veg-oil-update.pptx]

**Meeting Notes:**
Here is the Survey Monkey survey that was sent to College & University Recycling Listserv (~200 people) [|**Survey Link**]

Here is the email I wrote to send along with the survey. Please let me know what you think. Also, if we plan on sending out survey results, perhaps we should mention that in the email, also.

**Links to Useful Websites or Articles -- ADD MORE LINKS!**
New---> Biodiesel research and production lab at Loyola University []

New--> Copy of Report done by ENSC students last semester about the VEGAWATT generator proposal.
====Click here:[|Life-Cycle Assessment of Installing a Vegawatt Electrical Generator at UVM.doc]====

[|Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD)]
Read Section 3 of CSWD Manual for Management of Fats, Oils, Grease (FOG) Report. [|CSWD_FOG_Manual_Final.pdf] (2006)

Page 15 highlights Pete's Greens which is using WVO to heat greenhouses http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Pubs/Greenhouse_Furnace_Project_Report.pdf

[|U.S. EPA Biodiesel Page] [|Veggie Oil Engine video]

[|MIT WVO Project] [|Biodiesel at MIT Student Group] More about [|Biodiesel at MIT group].

[|VegaWatt Power Generator]

A few journal articles on vegetable oil's use in various renewable energy schemes: [|Wang2010_VOTriGen.pdf] [|Zhang2003_WCOBDProcess.pdf] [|Canacki2001_HighFFAPilotPlant.pdf]