The San Francisco Agricultural School in the Chaco region of Paraguay is a boarding school that is looking to reduce its current expenses on a steam boiler. Currently, the boiler is fueled by costly wood, which is becoming a financial burden for the school. Our objective is to relieve the economic and environmental burden of wood burning by creating a concept design of a boiler system that uses an alternative energy source. A system using a liquid fuel burner powered by biodiesel would be a solution that meets and even exceeds the school’s standard for cost-effectiveness and sustainability. To implement this idea, we have put together a manual with illustrations and simple instruction translated to Spanish so that even someone with little to no technical experience or knowledge could adopt, operate and maintain the biodiesel-powered heating system at the School.

Creator

• Clark, Deanna
• Wang, Ray
• Kesisglou, Iordanis
• Davis, Nyoca
• Lee, Foster

Contributors

• Nikitina, Svetlana

Subject

• Recover, Reuse, and Recycle: Building a Lasting World

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• GPS1328

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-01-01

Resource type

• Poster

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International