ENV 7135 Environmental BioDiesel

January 13 – March 24, 2010

Central Piedmont Community College, Central Campus

ENV 7135 provides a survey of the biofuel history and industry, including such prominent issues as food vs. fuel and the regulatory and incentives landscape. This class is also extremely relevant to students who want to make their own fuel, including the basic chemistry and time spent in the lab making and testing fuel and field trips to a small local refinery and the biggest refinery in North Carolina.  Of former students for this class, one is now the head chemist at a biodiesel plant, one engineer used the class for continuing education classes, and three local businessmen converted their small fleets to biofuel use. Focuses primarily on biodiesel and straight vegetable oil use, with a survey of other biofuels and feedstock technology.

Instructor: Richard Deming, Director, Aedifico, LLC

Rich works across a broad spectrum of sustainability projects in Charlotte, particularly in biofuels, green building, renewable energy and local food systems. Rich currently teaches the Center's biofuels class, is helping to organize a larger biofuels program and works on the Ecobox project.   Rich is a founding board member of Metrolina Biofuels and is chairman of Slow Food-Charlotte's community garden project.   Rich's companies have twice been finalists for the Charlotte Business Journal's green entrepreneurial prize, and he was named a 2008 NC Sustainability Champion by the NC Sustainable Business Council in Raleigh.

For details or to register: 704.330.4223