Waste Cooking Oil as a Fuel Alternative?

With the pull of an engine crank, experts will demonstrate how a renewable and widely available energy source could be used to help business operators save big bucks in energy costs.

The demonstration is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10, at 10:30 a.m. at the Vinyard Technology facility in Hartford, located 305 West Main Street, Alabama Highway 52, a half mile east of Alabama Highway 167. Dr. Timothy McDonald, Auburn University associate professor of biosystems engineering, and Shannon Vinyard, president of Vinyard Technology Co., Inc., will demonstrate the system, showing how waste cooking oil can be used to generate electrical power and, in the process, supplement their energy needs.

Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs is sponsoring the program the program, and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University