Posted to News on 16th Dec 2014, 20:23
PLC/HMI donated to students developing biodiesel process
Unitronics has donated a Vision570 PLC with colour touchscreen HMI to students at Rockwood Summit High School who started a project to process biodiesel fuel and have now been granted $100,000 by Monsanto to build a dedicated facility.
For the last four years, the students of Rockwood Summit High School in Missouri have developed and grown a programme to process biodiesel fuel. In 2012, with the help of its local distributor, Joseph Tauser & Associates, Unitronics donated a Vision570 PLC with colour touchscreen HMI and snap-in I/O to the students' lab. Using the PLC, the students were able to automate the process and monitor it from the classroom.
The students have remained committed to expanding; they were recently awarded a $100,000 donation from the Monsanto Company to build a dedicated facility for the biodiesel programme. They broke ground on the new Monsanto Education Center for Sustainable Solutions in June of 2014.
RSHS teacher, Darrin Peters, was awarded a Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators for his work implementing and developing the biodiesel program. Follow the links to read more about the RSHS biodiesel project and the Unitronics Vision570.
