Reducing contaminants in Waste Vegetable Oil with gasoline blending

Removing particulate, water, salt, sugar and lacquer from alternative Waist Vegetable Oil diesel fuel by blending gasoline into it. Bag filters verses cartridge filters for making alternative vegetable oil Blend diesel fuel.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• bio-diesel
• biodiesel
• biofuels
• Straight Vegetable Oil
• SVO
• Blending
• Bio-Blend Diesel
• VO Blend
• WVO

[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 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.

[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.