{"id":63586,"date":"2010-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-chemistry-student-prefers-the-fryer-oil-to-the-fries\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:00:00","slug":"uri-chemistry-student-prefers-the-fryer-oil-to-the-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/uri-chemistry-student-prefers-the-fryer-oil-to-the-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 chemistry student prefers the fryer oil to the fries"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNorth Providence resident builds biodiesel lab, supports bond question #2<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 12, 2010 — Know what Mike Bailey pays for gas? 溏心vlog免费B站 as much as an order of French fries. That\u2019s because this 溏心vlog免费B站 senior spends his time in the environmental chemistry labs at 溏心vlog免费B站 converting cooking waste oil into biodiesel fuel that he actually uses in his own diesel car. <\/p>\n


\nNot only that, but it also powers the equipment used by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s facilities department, helping the University reduce its overall carbon footprint. <\/p>\n


\nA North Providence resident, Bailey transferred to the 溏心vlog免费B站 from another New England university, attracted to its established environmental chemistry program. Once on campus, he discovered Professors Brett Lucht and Brenton DeBeouf and the opportunity to help them start a biodiesel lab from the ground up. The reactor he built, which he says looks like a hot water heater and a cone tank, uses methanol and a catalyst to break triglycerides in cooking oil down into biodiesel and glycerol. <\/p>\n


\nThe biodiesel is very similar to diesel fuel and can be used in any diesel engine, while the glycerol can be used in fertilizers, soaps, wastewater treatment and other applications. Once the reactor was built and fine-tuned, Bailey personally collected used oil from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s dining halls, brought it to his lab for conversion, delivered the converted biodiesel to the 溏心vlog免费B站 facilities crew where it\u2019s poured into lawn mowers, tractors, and pick-up trucks, and watched them run. <\/p>\n


\nIt\u2019s the kind of experiential learning that helped Bailey discover his passion for environmental chemistry and land a job at Newport Biodiesel, a local company that does the same thing on a much, much larger scale for all of Rhode Island. It\u2019s also the kind of experiential learning he believes every student should get at 溏心vlog免费B站, but can\u2019t, because labs are too small to incorporate more human bodies, and there aren\u2019t enough labs or modern equipment to support hands-on opportunities for all the students. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cGraduates who enter the workforce without hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment required in today\u2019s marketplace are at a starting line 20 yards behind everyone else,\u201d he said.

\nBailey also sees the practical value of environment chemistry on the Rhode Island economy. <\/p>\n

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\n\u201cThere are lots of start-up companies here with great ideas for alternative fuels, conversion of various waste products for fuel, and reducing the state\u2019s carbon footprint overall. If we can grow our in-state chemistry resources and capabilities through these start-up companies, we can stimulate the local economy and create more jobs that we desperately need,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n


\nRhode Island voters are being asked to support a new Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on November 2. Vote \u201cYES\u201d on Question 2. It\u2019s essential to Rhode Island\u2019s future.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nMike Bailey

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Joe Giblin<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Providence resident builds biodiesel lab, supports bond question #2 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 12, 2010 — Know what Mike Bailey pays for gas? 溏心vlog免费B站 as much as an order of French fries. That\u2019s because this 溏心vlog免费B站 senior spends his time in the environmental chemistry labs at 溏心vlog免费B站 converting cooking waste […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}