The diesel-extraction method for coffee grounds is similar to that used for other vegetable oils.
According to the ACS, Starbucks Hong Kong produces nearly 10 million pounds of spent coffee grounds annually.
Commercial production could be carried out by a company that collected coffee grounds from big coffee-chains and cafeterias.
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The grounds are then filtered out and the solvents separated (to be reused with the next batch of coffee grounds).
In their laboratory his team has set up a one-gallon-a-day production facility, which uses between 19kg and 26kg of coffee grounds.
The coffee grounds are dried overnight and common chemical solvents, such as hexane, ether and dichloromethane, are added to dissolve the oils.
So if you had unused coffee grounds, that would be true, but...
Dr Misra says that a litre of biodiesel requires 5-7kg of coffee grounds, depending on the oil content of the coffee in question.
The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.
In California, two entrepreneurs saw an opportunity in the mounds of coffee grounds thrown out each day by cafes in their own neighborhood.
Arora said they use "a massive stack" of coffee grounds per day, and it comes to about 18, 000 kilograms of reused grounds per week.
Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez were business students at the University of California, Berkeley, when they first heard in class that mushrooms could be grown entirely on discarded coffee grounds.
Putting the bakery goods and coffee grounds through a biorefining process would also have the added benefit of keeping a lot of waste out of the waste stream while also reducing pollution from incineration.
Problem two solved: a fairly simple silicone shower head evenly distributes coffee over the grounds.
Keyes is seen as a shadowy figure in ski mask and hood outside Common Grounds, a tiny Anchorage coffee shack then partially concealed from a busy six-lane highway by mountains of snow.
Turkish coffee, which is served in small cups where the grounds settle at the bottom, is very thick, dark, strong and sweet.
The water saturates the grounds without leaving any of those little divots in the coffee the way most drip coffee makers do, a sure sign of gentler, more even flow.
After a guest finishes his or her coffee, a host may turn the cup upside down, allow the grounds to cool and then tell a fortune by reading the grounds.
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