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Veggie Oil Fuel Home Processing Plant - Filtering

Video describing my home veggie oil filtration set up. Specifically the filtration step. I filter used cooking oil from a local restaurant and burn it as fuel in my 2001 diesel Volkswagen Jetta T...  
 
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gtr2222 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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lye and meta alchohol.
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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methol alcohol - Wood Alcohol - Methanol.
gtr2222 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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So filtering and that's it? Why do some use lye as an additive? And or other chemicals?
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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To make biodiesel, you add Lye and Methenol in the proper amounts, heat the whole mess up to about 60C (70C will ignite the methenol) mix it for a few hours and let it settle.

But I don't use BioDiesel. I installed a kit in my car that lets me burn streight veggie oil.
jekylfoot (1 year ago) Show Hide
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If I remember correctly the "journey to forever" site says just letting the oil settle for a couple of weeks is just as effective as filtering. What do you think? Thanks for the videos!
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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General opinions out there are that website is not to be trusted for anything more than its political messages. These opinions can be found at the mega-forum biodiesel-dot-infopop-dot-cc.
martythemartyr (1 year ago) Show Hide
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How many trees does it take to make these filter bags?
You can't win!
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Heh. Witty, but wrong. If the filters were made of wood product, 1 tree could make filters to process over 1M litres of oil. The energy multiplication would justify cutting down a tree. Nothing's free, but you can ceretainly "win".
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Oh, and the filterbags are made of polypropelyne (PP) - the same plastic that goes into nalgyne bottles and baby bottles. Bisphenol-A and all that. PP plastic is a by-product of oil refinement. 1 barrel of crude would make enough filters to process about as much oil as 1 tree. Except 1 tree can grow back in 30 years, oil is more like 300,000,000 years. :|
smellslikefries (1 year ago) Show Hide
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or Filterbag dot com.
I link to everything from my blog (smellslikefries dot blogspot dot com)

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