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June 25th, 2008

Using a biodiesel processing plant, Babson College is converting waste vegetable oil from campus restaurants to biodeisel for use in diesel powered equipment to maintain the campus grounds.
Biodiesel burns cleaner than petro diesel producing less greenhouse gases and particulate emissions.
The process of converting waste vegetable oil (WVO) to biodiesel is called transesterification.  Process breaks bonds [...]