What a fascinating articles....
I just can't believe it that those Engineer could come up with such ideas for fuel....
whenever this project is completed... we could probably have a fluctuate price of Morning Coffee... :)
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Diesel-powered vehicles could emit the aroma of fresh-brewed coffee, thanks to the research being conducted at the University of Nevada-Reno.By Susanne Retka Schill
The cup of java that fuels many people in the morning could soon fuel trucks too, in the form of coffee biodiesel.
The project at the University of Nevada-Reno came about rather serendipitously, when engineering professor Mano Misra, who is known as a prodigious coffee drinker, picked up a cup of forgotten coffee. Noticing the sheen from the oil floating on top of the cold coffee, it occurred to him that coffee oil could be a biodiesel feedstock. “Coffee is the most used beverage in the world,” he says. “Last year the world drank 15 billion pounds of coffee.” In mid-2007, he set a couple of students to work on the project. Jason Strull and Narasimharao Kondamudi began conducting experiments to find out how much oil coffee grounds hold and whether that oil could be used to make a high-quality biodiesel. The research became part of an award winning business plan and was the topic of a paper published in November by the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. It didn’t take long for details about the research to hit the newspapers and the blogosphere.
The New York Times’ treatment of the story is one of Strull’s favorites. The headline read “Diesel, Made Simply From Coffee Grounds (Ah, the Exhaust Aroma).” The article started out saying the new research touches on two of American’s great obsessions—coffee and cars. Other writers had fun with the recycling theme writing: “The next time you drink your morning coffee, think of the money you could make by recycling. Car fumes that smell like coffee, breathing coffee biodiesel.” And, “Why make your car smell like french fries when it could loft the sweet aroma of coffee?” Another favorite: “Move the focus of energy from the Persian Gulf to the back alleys of your neighborhood coffee shop.”
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