Founded in the spring semester of 2006, IBI first and foremost serves to produce and provide biodiesel to the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s Garage and Carpool services using waste vegetable oil from the University dining halls. Currently we operate out of the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, which we lovingly call ISTC.
We have come a long way from our foundations in 2006. Starting in the fall semester of 2011, we have designed and tested batch processes for creating glycerin soap, a byproduct from the biodiesel reaction.