Reducing contaminants in Waste Vegetable Oil with gasoline blending

[pat1huey]

Have you tried using deoxygenated gasoline for your blending experiments? I have heard of people washing gasoline with water to remove the alcohol (deoxygenate) but that could remove some of the other additives as well. I have an old mercedes diesel I just bought and am currently building a biodiesel reactor but I may give your blending technique a try first and see what happens....

[Jhananda]

@pat1huey there seems to be no reason to remove the alcohol in gasoline, because gasoline blended with alcohol works fine for blending. I think you should at least try blending before going to the trouble of making biodiesel.  I think you will find blending much easier, less work, less expensive and more effective, especially in cold weather.

[jeep1077]

Thank you for sharing. I am leaning toward the blend route. It seems so much simpler.

[Jhananda]

@jeep1077 Yes, blending requires about 1/2 the time, 1/4 the effort, a 1/10th the stuff and about half the cost of making bio-diesel.

[glumpy10]

Apart from the completely unessacary Complication , bulk and inherent danger of that monstrosity of a set up, is it even remotely legal to have all that crap hanging off the back of your Vehicle like that?

[Jhananda]

@glumpy10 While my completely mobile, solar-powered, bio-fuels processing system may seem like a "monstrosity" to you, it is nonetheless stream-lined compared to most other people's biodiesel processes which often take over the whole backyard and garage.

[Jhananda]

@glumpy10 Sadly, Offering a blending solution has resulted in me being banned from nearly all biofuels forums. So, some people engaged in making bio-diesel, or running two-tank systems, can be as dogmatic about their method as a born-again Christian can be about their religion. I am just offering another method that resolves some problems that neither bio-diesel, or two-tank systems answers.