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Blythewood High School students need your old cooking oil [Video]

Blythewood High School students are turning oil into diesel fuel.

BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — Before you pour that old cooking oil down the drain, you might want to consider donating it. Blythewood High School students need it to produce diesel fuel.

After it fries your food it sits idly by the trash, it could be repurposed to fuel your car after feeding your body.

“It starts with our oil drive, explains Andrew Gatzke, a senior biodiesel student at the school. “We need oil in order to make biodiesel fuel so the last week we’ve been asking people that come through the car rider line and we’ve gained about 10 gallons from that.”

After getting donations, the oil gets filtered to get rid of impurities.

“We use that b100 as fuel and continue to purify it by heating it and running it through an exchange column,” Gatzke said.

Inside the classroom, there are other teams working to perfect the process.

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