Making your own Bio Diesel

[Bruno]

I was telling a friend of mine about this guy on the show "Dirty Job" making his own bio diesel. So he checked it out and is making bio diesel at home for his dump trucks and has cut his fuel cost to .60 a gallon. He did tell me that if you pull up behind him in a car you smell french fries. He go's around to about 10 different place's to get their used veggy oil for free, and then makes it up for his 2 dump trucks. That would be nice if we could do that on the road lol. Go into Mc Donalds and say I will take a small coke and all your used veggy Oil togo. lol

 

[piper1]

Making real bio-diesel is not as easy as TV makes it look. The costs to set up a good reliable reactor to make a clean product and the time involved are not insignificant.

I set up a real small set up to test an animal fat for a beef company. I was amazed at how finicky the process was.

That said the fuel was great, and I run Bio when I can.

 

[Jim2029]

The thinig on getting the old veggy oil is that your fast food chains are not allowed to let you have there oil. But the small ma/pop resturants loves it when people want there old oil cause then they don't have to pay someone to haul it off.

 

[arkjarhead]

The Future Farmers of America chapter my little brother belongs to makes biodiesel for the small Ford tractor that is at the school. They are the only FFA group in the country to do it. They heat it up in 55 gallon drums by wrapping an electric blanket around it to heat it with a layer of that silver bubble wrap around it. They filter it, heat it, pull the air out, then add the methenol. It takes 24 hours for them to make about 50 gallons.

I know I've talked about this before, but it fit in the conversation again.