{"id":596,"date":"2012-06-18T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/?p=596"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:27:04","slug":"recovery-refurbishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2012\/06\/18\/recovery-refurbishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Refurbishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before and after photos!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-596 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2012\/06\/18\/recovery-refurbishment\/img_20120514_154512\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2012\/06\/IMG_20120514_154512-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Before Replacing Methanol Collector\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2012\/06\/18\/recovery-refurbishment\/img_20120613_151027\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2012\/06\/IMG_20120613_151027-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"After Replacing Methanol Collector\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The big pink and metal thing was our old recovered methanol storage unit. It&#8217;s been replaced with the much less-bulky unit that you can see hanging on the side of the plant cage. Now, there&#8217;s a lot more room inside the plant cage for us work and perhaps to add a translucent settling and storage tank.<\/p>\n<p>We currently settle and wash the transesterification mixture in the reactor, which we think has a hemispherical bottom. Because we can&#8217;t see inside the reactor, we have to guess when the biodiesel has separated from the wash or by-product layer. Similarly, we can&#8217;t tell when the wash or by-product layer is out of the reactor until we see biodiesel run out. This takes a lot of time and wastes good biodiesel. A translucent cone-bottom tank for settling will help solve these problems for us, and give us a better place to store our product than in the bunch of buckets we keep it in now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before and after photos! The big pink and metal thing was our old recovered methanol storage unit. It&#8217;s been replaced with the much less-bulky unit that you can see hanging on the side of the plant cage. Now, there&#8217;s a lot more room inside the plant cage for us work and perhaps to add a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2012\/06\/18\/recovery-refurbishment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recovery Refurbishment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12712,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358699],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biodiesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}