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Northern Arizona University is using a filtering system at its Transit Services that takes cooking oil collected from its food facilities and turns it into a biodiesel fuel to run some of its vehicles.
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The oil is taken from the University Union, south campus and the High Country Conference Center. The fuel is currently being tested on two buses. Edgar Civitello, an organic chemistry professor at Northern Arizona University, helped test the oil to find if it can be used as fuel.
The school can benefit from using less diesel and more biodiesel, because the oil is being kept on campus and is used for the university’s own buses.
Chris Johnson is the fleet manager for Transportation Services and helps operate the machine that turns cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. He said the money saved by switching to biodiesel is going to be significant.
When the project first started, diesel was $5 a gallon. To reduce the cost of diesel, they are makring own fuel at $1.70 a gallon.
The oil NAU uses now is being made into fuel, and Transit Services picks up the drums of oil outside campus eateries. They then bring the oil back and begin filtering out any food left in the oil, and then they mix it with other chemicals to produce the fuel.
T.C. Eberly, the manager of NAU’s Dining Services, said the cooking oil from the Union was sent out of town in the past.
Biodeisel as well as natural gas are emerging as common sense solutions and options for commericial vehicles, busses and vehicles of all kinds used by Universities.
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