After 30 seconds place bottle upright. You will notice the water is not clear. Remove top and using your thumb as a stopper, turn bottle upsidedown and drain the water using your thumb as a valve. You have finished wash one. Drain as in wash one. You have finished wash 2. When water and biodiesel seperate discard water in same fashion as before. Another ml water and a bit more aggitation for about 1 min.
After seperation of water and biodiesel Drain as above. If the washing has been completed sucessfully the water should be almost clear.
Be aware that in your later washes you should be able to shake mre violently although it will take considerably longer to seperate because the water forms tiny bubles in the biodiesel that take time to settle out. After a day or 2 settling and drying it will clear. You must remove all that water from your biodiesel before using it in a diesel engine or risk damaging the engine.
Step one: Find a reliable source of feedstock. Try sourcing used cooking oil from restaurants, makeup manufacturers or nutraceutical companies. Most brewers who make biofuels for themselves that is, not to sell secure a source of used cooking oil from area restaurants as feedstock for their operations.
A gallon of oil will yield about a gallon of biodiesel. Step two: Build your plant, sized to your feedstock supply. A small homebrewing operation can fit in the corner of a garage, within the footprint of a single parking space. Allow enough space for a water heater, a tank for storing your incoming feedstock, and a tank for washing your fuel. Pigs love it, and it improves their coats, so ask around to find a local farmer who will take it off your hands.
Home biodiesel production is not without risks. Be sure to check with your local zoning department, too, to see whether you may face restrictions related to fuel production. Note that farms are exempt from zoning approval in many areas. You should also get in touch with your area fire marshal or the local building inspection folks about fire-code compliance. The cocktail produced by the biodiesel reaction tends to be filled with methanol, glycerin, free fatty acids and soaps.
Because methanol is a microbial starter for digesters, some wastewater treatment plants will welcome it, as will some commercial-scale composters. Or, a friendly community biodiesel producer may accept it from you. Backyard biodiesel plants tend to be as diverse as the people who create them. Water heater tanks recycled into biodiesel reactors are common: Imagine an electric water heater, with a pipe plumbed to its outlet at the bottom, attached to a mixing pump that sends liquids to the top of the tank and back around again.
Many small brewers cobble together their own vessels and pipes from scrap. You and a group of neighbors can cooperate on a mobile biodiesel processor that can travel to the feedstock source. Mobile processors tend to be significantly more expensive than fixed units set up in a garage, but they can offer regulatory flexibility.
Also, on diesel vehicles older than , you may need to replace any rubber fuel lines with synthetic Viton rubber hoses as well. Step 3 Measure how acidic the oil is by doing something called a titration.
It's simple to do and can be done in under 5 minutes! Step 4 Mix up methanol racing fuel and catalyst either lye or caustic potash to make something called Methoxide.
Drain off the Glycerin layer. Allow the water to separate from the Biodiesel. Then drain off dirty water. After the fuel is dry, fill up the fuel tank on your diesel engine vehicle and drive away! We cover everything from finding the oil and equipment needed to make the fuel to how to process it into high quality Biodiesel that can be run in your diesel vehicles.
We even cover how to deal with the waste products such as the glycerin! Online Tutorial Videos Want to learn how to make Biodiesel visually online? Then be sure to check out our Biodiesel production tutorial videos! We created these with the beginner in mind and start right from the top. Even if you've never even heard of Biodiesel, by the time you're finished with these great online tutorial video's, you'll have an excellent understanding of what it takes to make Biodiesel, how to make a batch, what titration means, and why Biodiesel is such a great alternative to petro-diesel fuel!
Hosted by the popular Biodiesel educator Lyle Rudensey from Seattle, these incredible DVD's will walk you through everything you'll need to know to get started making great Biodiesel.
This complete workshop will teach you how to collect used cooking oil, how to filter it, how to create the Biodiesel recipe, how to react it into Biodiesel, how to wash it, test it, and then ensure that it's of high quality. One DVD is dedicated to a complete classroom instruction workshop! Lyle even covers making a batch of Biodiesel in a portable Biodiesel processor! On the second DVD, you'll go into the garage and see how to prepare waste vegetable oil to be made into fuel.
Using a home-made Biodiesel processor, Lyle shows how to react the batch from start to finish. He even shows how you can recover extra methanol from the glycerin! Then, he takes you into the heart of a Biodiesel coop and explains how to create and operate a successful Biodiesel coop in your community using a BioPro Automated Biodiesel Processor to literally create your own gas station!
It even has it's own pump! It's received rave reviews from all around the world and is an excellent tool for learning how to successfully make and even sell! They're a great way to see if Biodiesel would be right for you without spending much money.
Each kit has detailed, easy to follow instructions to give you a feel for what it takes to make a batch of Biodiesel. Basic Starter Kit This kit is our most basic kit and comes complete with everything needed to make a small batch of Biodiesel. Within a few hours the glycerin will settle out and you'll have Biodiesel!
There's no measuring, no calcuations, and no titration required. It's that simple! Deluxe Starter Kit This kit expands on the kit above. Not only will you be able to make a small batch of Biodiesel from new oil, but with this kit you can expand into making Biodiesel from waste oils! We've added everything the basic kit has plus enough catalyst to make 10 8 oz batches of Biodiesel. We give you nearly everything you'll need to get started testing waste oils to produce Biodiesel with.
You just add used oil, additional methanol, and distilled water for the the oil testing solution. It's like getting an oil test kit and a starter kit all rolled into one! Ultimate Starter Kit If you're one that just has to have it all, then this kit is for you! If you introduce it too quickly it will make soap. Not what we're shooting for here. Tilt the carboy to make sure all the methoxide drains out. Close the intake valve. Double check the pressure vent on the processor. Let this go for about an hour before you consolidate it all in the tank.
Let it sit with the element on for the next hours. The main byproduct of biodiesel is glycerin. Glycerin is useful, and can be used to make soap and things. You can also compost it. Just be sure to boil off any leftover methanol before you use it. There may be some unreacted catalyst, too. After hours it should be separated out. Open the valve nearest the tank and make sure the valve on the other side of the drain is closed, then slowly open the drain valve.
Drain into a bucket until what's coming out changes color. At this point you've drained the glycerin and have reached the fuel. Now all you need to do is wash your fuel before you can put it in a car. There are several methods to wash fuel, and if you use water you need to be sure to dry it. I'm dry-washing my fuel. Dry-washing uses Magnesol , and it uses no water. My next instructable will deal with the washing process. Now I know some of you are wondering about this, and yes, I am going to add a methanol recovery system.
As soon as I add the larger tank I'm adding that and some other upgrade type things. Question 3 years ago. Reply 4 years ago. If you're making biofuel from waste products good on you, but if you think that biofuel is the 'green' solution to everyones transport needs I have to rain on the parade a bit. Biofuel sounds like a good idea until you start thinking about the consequences of it a little.
Like the way it's pushing up the price of food around the world , and the fact that producing food crops uses about 2. Looks like I can swap destroying the climate with my car for causing global famine with my car. Makes you wonder what would it take to get people to ride bikes instead.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction. One word: Algae. Biofuels from food crops- bad idea, biofuels from non-food sources- the way of the future. Reply 5 years ago. Well, biofuels from non food crops sounds good, until farmers who were growing food crops realise there's more money in growing fuel crops and give up growing food.
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