Meeting Minutes -- Fall Semester 2008

[Biodiesel]

The minutes for this year's meeting will be posted on the Project's
Group under this discussion as Reply's each week.

If you are in charge of the Minutes for the weeks meeting, please
include:

In Subject Line: Meeting # and Date

In Post:
DATE
TIME
LOCATION
Topics of Discussion (such as Officer Reports, Announcements, Events,
etc)
Proposed Goals for the Following Week

A secretary should be appointed at the beginning of each meeting who
will be in charge of the meetings minutes. This will rotate weekly.

Cheers,

-WVU Biodiesel Project

[Biodiesel]

SUBJECT: Meeting #1, 8/27/2008 --Starting the year off with
enthusiasm!

Time: 5:02pm, Room 425 of the ESB, Wen Library.

Topics of Discussion:

Introduction of people at the meeting (roughly 15 accounted for).

Erica Sladky: The WVU Biodiesel Project's mission and a brief history.
Some questions were answered.

Matthew Shaffer: Introduced himself and Mylan. Began discussions of
plans with project, electrical engineering, and biodiesel. Many
subjects discussed.

Morgan Ames: Talked about meeting with Clement Solomon over the
summer. Planning on setting up a meeting with him for the Project with
Erica, Kayla, Adam, and Morgan.

Adam Johnson: Discussed where we left off from last semester.
Introduced SMART Goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant/
Realistic, and Trackable). Going to set a personal goal by next week
and hopes to set a group goal by the next 1-2 meetings. Handed out
stickers.

More discussion (to be filled in my Avram).

Dismiss to Engineer Fest! New names and emails were taken, stickers
handed out, information presented.

Looking forward to Meeting #2!

-Adam Johnson
WVU Biodiesel Project Publicist

[Biodiesel]

Sept. 10, 2008

Patty: Business Plan Competition - due Oct. 1
- Business Plan edited by Sept. 17
Matthew: Mylan Tour, preparing standard operating procedures, PLC
demonstration, controller, suggested small goals for each week
Morgan: Meeting with Clement Solomon - Sept. 19 @ 1 pm - Engineering
Building (ESB 425?)
-Avram, Morgan, Kayla attending
-Need to finalize goals of meeting, topics of discussion
Goals set at this meeting:
- Contact EcoCar team about space/collaboration
- Add people to Google group, fix Gmail listserv
- Break into groups based on design components of skid

[Adam]

Meeting Date: 9/24/08
5:00 to 5:40, Wen Library 425 ESB.
Topics of Discussion:

PLEASE COME TO THE NEXT MEETING!
Avram: Discussed making biodiesel and asked, "Which part of the
process do you want to design?" --Decide and come to the next meeting
to sign up!
Also, Avram will bring Tom D's model for laying out the Project's
skid.

Patty: Kayla and Adam will meet for business plan on Thursday and
streamline it. Afterwards, they shall send it to Patty and Morgan for
final touch ups.

Met with Solomon: SUCCESS! Need to meet with him and his superiors to
prove that the Project is economically efficient for WVU and the
Project, after it has been built, would probably be run by WVU
employees; however, the Project would still be allowed to use premises
for educational purposes.

Going to further look into Grants and let everyone know by the next
meeting.

Adam: In charge of minutes this week.
Going to collaborate with Erica for the VOTE campaign to get people to
vote as to whether or not they would like biodiesel @ WVU. Graphic
ready and to be presented at next meeting.
Next Meeting Goal: Talk about who to give calendars to.

Kayla: Further briefings about Solomon meeting. Meeting with Adam
Thursday.

ps- Erica still needs to post the minutes from last week. Thats right,
boo ya, I just called you out! ;-)

Until next week (where we will have record turnouts ;-)

-Adam

[Biodiesel]

MINUTES 9/17 (These were on the blog... got it sorted out though!).

1. Susan Case/Ryan Sigler: project may qualify for grant

a. Carbon spot/reactor area may have room to house facility; talk to
Dr. Z

b. Patty follow up

2. Questions for Clement Solomon

a. Let him know what our club is about

b. Show business plan

c. Possibly get calendars?

d. Problems:

i. Location

ii. Cooperation with dining halls

iii. Vehicle

iv. People; work-study, independent study; unit-ops lab

v. Liability issues

vi. Glycerin disposal

vii. Hazardous material storage

e. What are your capabilities?

f. Who’s going: Morgan, Kayla, Avram, possibly Erica

g. Make ppt

h. Dean Cilento + Soloman

3. Website = casi bueno

4. Vote for biodiesel!

5. Polo shirts

6. SAC meeting- get 500 dolares –erica will do it

7. Next meeting: skid groups; our platform on biodiesel

[Biodiesel]

10/1/2008
*Patty - Meeting with ChemE dept. - Interest from dept.
- Submitted Business Plan to competition
*Matt - B&E Professor contact
- Need to figure out process for donations directly to the
project
- Mylan tour - Friday @ 3:45 - Meet at Engineering Bus Stop
- Talking to Dave Durham
*Adam - Tabling in Mountainlair
- Set up biodiesel lab - talk to Dr. Anderson
- Grants Committee - David, JBerg, Dan
*Morgan - Sustainable/Renewable Energy Grants

*Process Groups:
- Control Group - Amanda, Matt
- Main Tank (Pump/Reaction, Wash/Filter) - Patty (W/F)
- Methanol Recovery Group - Alex, Morgan
- Mechanical Group - Kayla, Matt
-Methoxide
- Safety/Quality Control

*Next meeting:
- Processor Groups
- Writing something on the Project's official stance/mission, etc.
- Uses for SGA grant

[Biodiesel]

10/8/2008
1. Adios Matt!!

2. Support from Dadyburjor- what size space do you need?

a. Unit Ops lab size- class would do batch, in off weeks we could go
in
i. Or use as educational opportunity
ii. Could be intermediate step- eventually wvu employees could take it
over
b. 20 x 20 with concrete floor, sinks, temporary storage, access to
water
c. IDEALLY: university-operated; still incorporate students in some
way via education
d. ***Unit Ops in addition to university operation in remote
location***
e. Presentation: lay out what we want, but keep in mind what he could
settle for.
i. Alex speak; planning meeting: Sunday 2 PM ChE Lounge
f. What to include in presentation
i. Equipment plan
ii. Closeness to reaching monetary goal…
iii. Grants
iv. Clemente Soloman meeting
v. Cost-Benefit Analysis
1. Publicity benefits for WVU/ ChE Department
2. Fuel savings
3. Cost savings
4. Education
5. Environmental Benefits
vi. The WVU Biodiesel Project Proposal i.e. THE PLAN, university run
process along with unit-ops lab
vii. Calendar and our plan as a reminder so he has a visual
viii. (Updated business plan if needed)


3. Zondlo: reactor he can provide

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