Then use water to wash the excess methanol, lye and soapy residue from the biodiesel. The water will settle to the bottom of the vessel in a few hours, where you can drain it out.
Allow the fuel to air out for a day or two with the top off to let any cloudiness caused by a small amount of remaining water dissipate. You can't make biodiesel if you don't have a couple of high-quality restaurants in your area.
Greasy spoons need not apply. That's because the more pure the WVO is, the better the biodiesel. Restaurants that overcook their food, don't change their oil frequently or cook lots of frozen food will have oil with high free-fatty-acid content. As for water, less is better. As little as 5 percent in the WVO can leave you with a batch of soapy glop instead of biodiesel in your processor.
You don't want to deal with the mess of cleaning up, so care in selecting feedstock will pay off in the long run. Heat a couple of ounces of the WVO in a frying pan. If it sizzles, there's too much water.
This water can be removed by heating the oil to above degrees in an open container, and then letting it cool down. But that consumes a lot of energy, and you'll need to baby-sit the whole business because of the danger of fire.
Best just to find higher-quality WVO. Busy restaurants are like food-cooking assembly-lines. They heat their oil at the same time, at the correct temperature, and fry about the same amount of food every day. They also change their cooking oil at the same time and in the same way every week.
Other places aren't as careful, and their oil gives me less, and poorer quality, biodiesel per batch. I get almost all my WVO from two local restaurants, and I've never had water in the oil. Biodiesel processing has become popular. Restaurants used to be thrilled when I took the old oil away without charging them. Fats and oils triglycerides are much more viscous than biodiesel, and low-level vegetable oil blends can cause long-term engine deposits, ring sticking, lube-oil gelling, and other maintenance problems that can reduce engine life.
Research is being conducted on developing algae as a potential biodiesel feedstock. It is expected to produce high yields from a smaller area of land than vegetable oils. Biodiesel is distributed from the point of production to fuel terminals and wholesalers by truck, train, or barge.
Sodium hydroxide is commercially produced lye; both sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide are available online from suppliers of soap-making equipment.
Procure methanol at your local chemical distributor or race car shop race car drivers often blend methanol into their fuel supplies. In North Carolina, where I live, you can carry gallons of methanol on your pickup truck without special permits or licensing.
This occurs when you mix methoxide with oil and agitate the molecules. The product of the biodiesel reaction will be a mix of about 80 percent biodiesel and a 20 percent cocktail of coproducts.
You can either drain the coproducts off the bottom of your tank, or decant the biodiesel from the top of the tank.
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.
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!
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