{"id":63615,"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-wins-research-poster-contest-for-project-to-convert-algae-to-biofuel\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-wins-research-poster-contest-for-project-to-convert-algae-to-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/uri-student-wins-research-poster-contest-for-project-to-convert-algae-to-biofuel\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student wins research poster contest for project to convert algae to biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 18, 2010 \u2013 Cesar Alejo, a junior electrical engineering major at the 溏心vlog免费B站, took the top prize at a research poster symposium at Northeastern University on Sept. 24. Three other 溏心vlog免费B站 students teamed up to earn third place at the competition.<\/p>\n


\n\tA resident of Providence, Alejo competed against 40 other students at the Northeast conference of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. His research focused on a method for extracting oil from algae cells as a source of biofuel.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cUp to half the weight of a typical algae cell is made up of oil or lipid, and they reproduce really fast,\u201d Alejo said. \u201cBy growing algae you can produce more oil per acre than from corn or other crops. It has a lot of potential for the biofuel industry.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tUnder the guidance of 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Stanley Barnett, Alejo tested a method of extracting oil from the algae using a process called electroporation, which uses an electric field to create pores in algae cells. Oil then seeps out of the cells.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Alejo, he worked with the 溏心vlog免费B站 Mechanical Engineering Department to build a microfluidic device with a tiny channel through the center in which he placed algae cells. While administering an electric field to the device, the cells traveled down the channel where it narrows and the electric voltage increases, creating pores in the cells.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe next step in the project, said Alejo, is to test other methods for extracting and collecting the oil at a more efficient rate.<\/p>\n


\n\tAt the poster symposium, judges interviewed each student and evaluated their research posters. Alejo\u2019s first place award included a $300 check.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe three third place winners in the poster competition, all 溏心vlog免费B站 civil engineering majors, are Maria Beltre of Providence, Marlyn Mendoza of Warwick, and Alfred Rodriguez of Providence.<\/p>\n


\nThe Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation aims to strengthen the preparation, representation, and success of historically under-represented minority students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. At 溏心vlog免费B站, the program is administered by Chemical Engineering Professor Harold Knickle and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 October 18, 2010 \u2013 Cesar Alejo, a junior electrical engineering major at the 溏心vlog免费B站, took the top prize at a research poster symposium at Northeastern University on Sept. 24. Three other 溏心vlog免费B站 students teamed up to earn third place at the competition. A resident of Providence, Alejo competed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63617,"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-63615","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\/63615","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=63615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}