In August, the Eastern Iowa Community College District purchased 2 new Biodiesel reactor kits from Azure Biodiesel Company. The kits were purchased using Grow Iowa Value Funds. This grant is facilitated by ATEEC.

Paul Martin, Muscatine Community College Agriculture Instructor, arranged for Dan Dykema from Azure Biodiesel to give a training session in the manufacture of Biodiesel fuels (shown in the picture to the left). Instructors and students attended the session. The college has recently partnered with two area restaurants and will be receiving their waste vegetable oil (wvo). The wvo will be processed into biodiesel, which can be used to run any diesel vehicle.

The kits will be housed at the Scott and Muscatine campuses. They will be used as educational tools by a variety of programs and classes, including agricuture, chemistry, automobile, technology, and environmental science, just to name a few.