AMMAN —
Three students at the
German Jordanian Universities (GJU) converted vegetable
oil which had been used for cooking shawarma and falafel into organic fuel,
Ad-Dustour daily reported.
اضافة اعلان
Dana Korik, Shatha
Al-Khryush and Rama Al-Ghazawi with GJU’s natural resources engineering and
management school, converted the oil as part of their final graduation project.
The conversion was
carried out under the supervision of the head of the department of energy
engineering, Mustafa Al-Jaradat.
The project tackled
all aspects of organic fuel, and how used restaurant oil can be converted into
fuel to be utilized in different ways.
The students produced the fuel in the university’s
laboratories by creating a programmed device to produce organic fuel, which is
supplied with used oil and special chemicals. The mixture is then heated to the
necessary temperature, and stirred.
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