Bio-diesel

Mark Hunt

I have a customer that is going to start manking their own Bio-diesel fuel.

Part of the process requires heating glycerine to 140* and collecting the methanol that out gasses from it.

Question, how corrosive is glycerine?

We need to provide an indirect fired heater for the system and I was wondering if the tank HAD to be stainless steel?

I'll post pics as we go.


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Constantin

Take a look at this site...

... I'm not trying to imply that they are the end-all of Bio-Diesel production, however, they seem to offer complete kits for Diesel production. From what I can tell on their site, using plastic tanks is perfectly acceptable. In the end, it may be less expensive to buy a complete kit rather than building one from scratch, YMMV of course.

BioDiesel Solutions

Ron Schroeder_2

Glycerine is not very corrosive but the lye used in Biodiesel is. I had good luck with plastic tanks when producing Biodiesel. If metal, I would use Stainless steel.

Ron

S Ebels

Sounds like that's past tense

Why did you quit making it?

Seattle Nick

How about a variation on this?

http://pathtofreedom.com/pathproject/offthegrid/biodiesel.shtml

Still would love to know how to make these links clickable instead of cut and paste! Anyone?

Mark Hunt

Thanks for the link!


I'll study the site.


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Mark Hunt

Thanks Constantin


Electricity would not be a viable option for the energy source here.

This is going to be a neat little project.

Thanks again.

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Constantin

Nick, I sent you a how-to yesterday...

... have you checked the e-mail address associated with this site?

Seattle Nick

Excellent! Thank you very much, Constantin! I will try it out with the next posting!

More Biodiesel links:
Water removal from Biodiesel


biodieselnow.com


Even more info!





See Willie filling his brand new Mercedes with B100!

Seattle Nick

Okay, here is another Biodiesel link:

Biodiesel info

Seattle Nick

Worked like a charm! Thanks for the html lesson C!

Ron Schroeder_2

I went to filtered and heated raw waste veggy oil instead of converting the oil to bio-diesel. Unfortunatly, I no longer have any diesel vehicles so I am just experimenting with running waste veggy oil in a burner that I designed.