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Carnegie Mellon University
Gelfand Outreach Pictures
Victor, Sauda, Rishabh, and Daniel talk about how they got to Carnegie Mellon and their research to middle-schoolers during a Gelfand Outreach workshop. The kids learned about the circular economy, how a distillation column works, and the process of producing renewable biodiesel from used cooking oil. They used Aspen Plus software to simulate the process on a computer and observed the effects of changing the reflux ratio and number of distillation column stages on the product purity and CO2 emissions.