With the aim of reducing environmental pollution and producing clean energy
3 students convert aluminum sheets into fuel
(From the right) Al-Sectori, Al-Issa and Al-Wali during the project presentation. From the source
Three students at Al Khalil Bin Ahmed Secondary School in Sharjah were able to recycle used aluminum sheets to produce clean energy, with the aim of reducing pollution in the environment, providing environmentally friendly fuel, which is "second-methyl ether", and making use of aluminum waste by recycling it.
A teacher at the school supervising the project, Ibrahim Fouad, told Al-Emarat Al-Youm that “students Khaled Al-Qata’i, Hamza Al-Issa, and Khaled Al-Wali came up with the idea of recycling used aluminum sheets that cause increased pollution in the environment, to produce clean energy that can be used for purposes And various productive activities, and it took the students about three months to complete the project that I supervised in conjunction with my colleague Yaqoub Darwish, and they were able to conduct several experiments on it in the school's laboratory.
Fouad explained the method of obtaining clean energy from used aluminum sheets, saying that aluminum waste is placed in a concentrated HCL solution, until the aluminum chloride solution is formed, and this reaction is exothermic, and then the solution is left until it crystallizes in the form of salt, which is used in the production of diethyl Ether used as clean fuel.
He pointed out that the students participated in the project in the National Festival for Science, Technology and Innovation organized by the Ministry of Education at the "Festival Arena - Dubai" last February, and won the admiration of the evaluation committee in the festival, and it was among the top 100 student projects selected to participate in the festival at the level of Country.