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I've been doing a ton of research on this for the last year or so too. Beware, those bio machines aren't as easy to run as Trucks made it look like. I'm not trying to discourage anyone but know ahead of time that there is a lot of chemistry involved and hands on time during the processing. There are also many differant types of machines out there, ie. appleseed processor, fuelmeister, etc. Some sound great until you do some serious research and find out guys that have tried them had nothing but problems. The appleseed seems to be pretty well like.If you've got the money and don't feel like messing with all the mad scientist stuff check out the biopro 190. It takes a little longer to make a batch but you only have about 20min hands on time, otherwise it's fully automated.I'm sick and tired of giving my hard earned money to fat cats and terrorists!!
I've seen biodiesel processors on craigslist for $1600, still a lot of money though. The glycerin has to be removed which can then be used to make soap.
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what about hemp oil?
Old bong water?I was directed to this thread last night. I'm just in the dreaming stage of getting into diesel, the possibilities are almost endless. I have tons of questions, mostly incredibly newbie style questions. One for now would be...how does bio or wvo compare to pump fuel as far as cetane goes...can the same compression rations be run or...higher or lower?The methanol used in the conversion process, can it be reclaimed in any useful form? It seems a shame to throw all that away when it could potentially be re-used in a water/methanol injection system.At the end of the process, what becomes of the lye? Is it converted to some inert compound. is it still toxic/caustic if so, how is it disposed of?What kind of numbers are we talking about here...out of, say 100 gallons of waste oil...how much waste lye, methanol, glycerin is there to store or dispose of?
To tell the truth...I'm disappointed in your answer! I wanted you to do all the reading, sort the info and catagorize it for me!I'm also very, very interested in algae/bio-diesel. I think some thing like that, especially if it can be used with out further chemical processing (ie, just cold pressing the oil from the algae), would be just the ticket. We have plenty-o-sun out here and could rotate the crop several times a year.
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