Princeton University Tests Biodiesel for CO-Gen

from Princeton Weekly Bulletin:

As part of campus-wide sustainability and carbon dioxide reduction efforts, Princeton's facilities department earlier this fall successfully operated its campus energy plant boilers and gas turbine cogeneration system using soy-based biodiesel.

According to Ted Borer, energy plant manager, the test was the first of its kind in New Jersey for stationary boilers and marked the first time in the world that biodiesel has been used to fuel GE's LM1600 gas turbine, which originally was developed as the engine for the Stealth Fighter and the Navy FA-18. The turbine is used to generate steam for heating and 15 megawatts of electric power for the campus.

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