This LAB-AIDS‚® kit is designed for use with six groups of four, or at most five, students. If your classes have more students than this kit is designed to accommodate, you can buy extra components. kits contain enough materials for one additional student group. Developed by SEPUP.
This activity includes three major parts:
- Investigation One - is a demonstration of the fermentation of corn and cane sugar, the two food sources used most commonly to produce ethanol, and the distillation of the fermented stillage to produce fuel‚
- Investigation Two - students investigate the energy released by the combustion of ethanol and kerosene and compares the results‚
- Investigation Three - students measure and compare two by-products - CO2 and particulute matter - of the two fuels. Students compare results and discuss the trade-offs of bio-fuels and fossil fuels as sources of energy
