View Full Version : Learn to make your own biodiesel- Nov 1-2



Maria Alovert
10-29-2008, 11:02 AM
I'm not sure if this is the right section of the board to post in, so forgive me if I"m offbase, but I wanted to make an announcement about this seminar this weekend in Piedmont:
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Learn To Make Biodiesel:

Biodiesel Production Essentials class

Piedmont, OK, November 1-2

9:30-4:30
314 Edmond Road NW, Piedmont, OK
(held in an events room in the municipal building)
$120

for more information and to register:

Biodiesel classes with Maria 'girl Mark' Alovert, fall 2008 (http://www.girlmark.com/tour)

This class covers the basics of producing biodiesel, quality control and testing, and equipment design.

This class is discussion-based, as well as hands-on- so bring your questions.

Although the class assumes no prior experience, experienced producers have also found this class useful. The class is a combination of lecture and have hands-on 'lab' sessions where you will practice titrating oil, making test batches, making mistakes intentionally and learning from them, testing the biodiesel, washing the biodiesel in test batches, and testing oil. We will discuss some advanced topics depending on interest- "waterless washing", ethyl esters, and high-FFA oil.

To register, see Biodiesel classes with Maria 'girl Mark' Alovert, fall 2008 (http://www.girlmark.com/tour)


About the instructor:
Maria 'girl Mark' Alovert is a biodiesel production technology consultant based in North Carolina. She is the author of The Biodiesel Homebrew Guide, a manual on biodiesel production (Local b100 and Biodiesel Homebrew Guide (http://localb100.com)), the founder of the community-written biodiesel homebrewing tutorial site Welcome - Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial Website (http://biodieselcommunity.org) and is the inventor of the Appleseed Processor, an 'open source' design now used by thousands of people around the world to produce biodiesel on a 'homebrew' scale. She has been involved in home-scale biodiesel technology development since 2000. She frequently teaches beginning and advanced biodiesel production classes around the country