{"id":930,"date":"2013-03-12T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/?p=930"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:08:00","slug":"new-biodiesel-fueling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2013\/03\/12\/new-biodiesel-fueling-station\/","title":{"rendered":"New Biodiesel Fueling Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-931\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-3-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Undertaken by 4th year engineering students <strong>Patrick Wong and John Yuen<\/strong>, the new, the new fueling station allows for &#8220;blend on demand&#8221; fueling. The customer sets the desired biodiesel blend from B5 to B100 and when finished fueling \u00a0the new system will print a receipt for the fuel purchased, with separate prices for petro and biodiesel fuels set by the system operator. The new system also increases the storage capacity of fuel to 400L.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-932\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/files\/2013\/03\/Fueling-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">This is a great improvement over the previous fueling station which required manual blending of biodiesel with diesel, thus setting the same blend for all customers.\u00a0<\/span>The new system employs the use of two pumps to\u00a0simultaneously deliver controlled amounts of biodiesel and petrodiesel through a\u00a0series of electronic meters and valves allowing the system to supply any blend desired.\u00a0A typical refueling is estimated to\u00a0take no longer then 3 or 4 minutes half the time as the previous system.\u00a0Future improvements to the system are recommended firstly in the upgrade of the\u00a0solenoids, followed by upgrades to the pumps should a greater capacity be desired.\u00a0Other areas of interest can be found in the continued improvement to the digital\u00a0features like internet communication for automated billing by email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undertaken by 4th year engineering students Patrick Wong and John Yuen, the new, the new fueling station allows for &#8220;blend on demand&#8221; fueling. The customer sets the desired biodiesel blend from B5 to B100 and when finished fueling \u00a0the new system will print a receipt for the fuel purchased, with separate prices for petro and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/2013\/03\/12\/new-biodiesel-fueling-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Biodiesel Fueling Station&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358699],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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\/9747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sustainabilityclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}