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came across some oil

Mark — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:04:10 +0000

came across some oil
Hi, I have been offered some oil, it is cottonseed. The chap has a restaraunt and hasnt had oil collected in a long time. He has a large drum about 400L that hasnt been emptied.They have been storing the oil in the drums since the big one wasnt emptied, there are about 40 to 50 20L drums.:D. The…

Hi, I have been offered some oil, it is cottonseed. The chap has a restaraunt and hasnt had oil collected in a long time. He has a large drum about 400L that hasnt been emptied.They have been storing the oil in the drums since the big one wasnt emptied, there are about 40 to 50 20L drums.:D. The question is will this oil be ok to use for bio, and how long can oil be stored for before it losese its apeal?
Thanks Brenden

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LH2 Airport requirements study (NASA contractor report; NASA CR-2700)

Mark — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:04:06 +0000

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Aktivatsiia vodoroda i vodorodosoderzhashchikh energonositelei

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Hydrogen Energy (Advances in hydrogen energy)

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Fertiliser from By Product

Mark — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:04:05 +0000

Fertiliser from By Product
Hi All I have beem making biodiesel for awhile now using KOH / Methonal for the catylast, and have a few hundred litres of by product “glycerine” black glug. Question: How can I turn this into fertiliser, is this possible and is it practial. cheers 05

Hi All

I have beem making biodiesel for awhile now using KOH / Methonal for the catylast, and have a few hundred litres of by product “glycerine” black glug.

Question: How can I turn this into fertiliser, is this possible and is it practial.

cheers 05

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New Reactor and other pics
Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/037.jpg The oil stock pile Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/038.jpg The pump meter and bowser below Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/039.jpg Image:…

The oil stock pile

The pump meter and bowser below

The processor room

The burner type Heater unit Thanks dave and wayne.

The Big boy reactor

Stage one WVO drying and heating system

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Does anyone need some frytol?
We are a Hotel in Araluen NSW, we had been asked by someone if they could have our used Frytol, we have been saving it, and now they have changed their mind and have not come to collect it. Is there anyone out there that would like to pick up 8 drums of used Frytol oil. They are 20 litre drums…

We are a Hotel in Araluen NSW, we had been asked by someone if they could have our used Frytol, we have been saving it, and now they have changed their mind and have not come to collect it. Is there anyone out there that would like to pick up 8 drums of used Frytol oil. They are 20 litre drums about 3/4full. We are located 1.5hours from Canberra or Batemans Bay or Goulburn, or 1/2hour from Braidwood. Please send “PM” if interested.

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Nothing is ever easy!!
Hi bio forumites! Imagine my delight when unexpectedly I scored 120L of WVO from an unexpected source who found out I was WVOing and extended good will! Anyway - this arvo I did a random water (so called smear) test. It failed!! It has a fair few bubbles! To cut a long story…

Hi bio forumites!

Imagine my delight when unexpectedly I scored 120L of WVO from an unexpected source who found out I was WVOing and extended good will!

Anyway - this arvo I did a random water (so called smear) test.

It failed!! It has a fair few bubbles!

To cut a long story short - I’m not asking how to get rid of water because there are enough threads here on that topic to kill an army. What I’m on about is:

1. Has anyone tested this?
Vegie Cars - Filter Powder

2. I have four weeks to try to get at least 100L ready so I can go on tour with a decent amount of oil to help pay the trip. Any advice to fast track the dewatering? (Or am I going to be working round the clock heating and blowing bubbles through it?)

Many thanks,
Soc.

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BD From Raw animal waste.
Hello everyone, Has anyone attempted to make BD from complete raw animal waste, ie bones, feet, hearts, livers, heads ect.. from cattle and pigs We have sucessfully made several litres of Tallow BD with no complication and complete success, using both Pig, and Cattle tallow *ONLY*.. however…

Hello everyone,

Has anyone attempted to make BD from complete raw animal waste, ie bones, feet, hearts, livers, heads ect.. from cattle and pigs

We have sucessfully made several litres of Tallow BD with no complication
and complete success, using both Pig, and Cattle tallow ONLY.. however the supply we are using to make the BD is fresh from the buthers knife, so we have constructed an industrial scale rendering unit with some misc pices of equipment we managed to gather up and put together.

Anyway here is what we are running into:
We have rendered the materials using the materials own liquid
to render itself down, (i,e it’s own fat/liquid)
drained off the (tallow) fats?… into a holding tank
heated it up 300F to boil of any moistur that may be present in the stuff, did titration correctly sveral times, mixed up the proper amounts of methoxide, lowered the temp to 125F to mix in the methoxide and tried to make a one litre batch before we made a 200L Batch out of all of those materials mixed together anyway,

What we have run into is the famous beigh foam, gel, gloap whatever you want to call it which happpens when you ad too much caustis soda to the solution.

So we tried again, and again with different amounts of Methonal and
casutic soda (lye) and had gotten the same results everytime’
which was a lovely thick gloap of the entire mixture.

So carrying on from that we had tried just tallow (fat) again from the same animal and it worked fine like it always had worked before.

So we began researching again and it seems that all the reasearch
and peronal opinions/experinces that others had lead to the bone Marrow and blood that is present during our rendering phase of the process messing up the chemical reaction that is suppose to happen during the BD process.

So the biggest questions that I need help answering are:

1. If you use water instead of it’s own liquid to boil the materials will that remove the Marrow/Blood mixture from the tallow by settling out at the bottom of the rendering unit after the straight tallow hardens again?

2. Is there anyway that a centerfuige system would remove the marrow/blood out of the tallow? as it seems everywhere you look online, in the production of tallow BD people are using starigt tallow and have never mention anything about marrow or blood in the mixture and what it can do to mess it up.

3. Does anyone have any input, or experince delaing with this same issue and what were your counter measures to ensure a succesfull batch of BD from tallow?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Darren

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BD From Raw animal waste.

Mark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:04:04 +0000

Hello everyone,

Has anyone attempted to make BD from complete raw animal waste, ie bones, feet, hearts, livers, heads ect.. from cattle and pigs

What we have run into is the famous beigh foam, gel, gloap whatever you want to call it which happpens when you ad too much caustis soda to the solution.

So we tried again, and again with different amounts of Methonal and
casutic soda (lye) and had gotten the same results everytime’
which was a lovely thick gloap of the entire mixture.

So carrying on from that we had tried just tallow (fat) again from the same animal and it worked fine like it always had worked before.

So the biggest questions that I need help answering are:

3. Does anyone have any input, or experince delaing with this same issue and what were your counter measures to ensure a succesfull batch of BD from tallow?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Darren

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Planned Maintenance 20 November 2008
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It’s the Little Things……
8Am this morning I haul my still more than half asleep carcass out of of a comfy bed, Drag on the smelly old clothes I was wearing yesterday getting covered in oil and head out in the pre -packed car to one of my best, high quality oil suppliers in hopes of the warm, fuzzy feeling only a full…

8Am this morning I haul my still more than half asleep carcass out of of a comfy bed, Drag on the smelly old clothes I was wearing yesterday getting covered in oil and head out in the pre -packed car to one of my best, high quality oil suppliers in hopes of the warm, fuzzy feeling only a full drum of oil can give you.
Or so I thought.

No Sooner do I arrive and start pumping the fuel of the gods when the old fella that lives on the opposite side of the lane way (whom I have chatted to a couple of times before as he takes his dog for a walk,) comes up with a 4L jar of oil and presents it to me saying he had been saving it up and waiting to see me to hand it over.

Maybe it was because it was so unexpected, maybe I am getting too soft in my old age, but that 4L of oil pales into comparison all the other 0000’s of liters I have collected so far.

I’m quite certain that only the ” unique” group of people such as those here would be the least bit pleased to be handed a large jar of used cooking oil by a virtual stranger, but I was totally wrapped at the gesture and must have been visibly so because even the gent that gave it too me commented that he didn’t think I’d be that excited about such a little amount.
As I said to him, It’s the thought that counts, and I thought the fact that this guy had bothered to save this up for me was bloody brilliant. Sure it’s a literal drop in the ocean but what it represented to me was Huge.

I got home and my wife asked If I got any oil and I said, couple of hundred liters but look at this!
Ordinarily, finding a full drum of good oil would be something that would put a smile on my face but this measly 4L was worth 100 times that just for the thought behind it!

It’s amazing what the highlight of your day can be and what you will recount and think of for years to come.

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A list of alage to biofuel firms
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog) The blogger behind nualgi has done us all a favour, and listed a whole bunch of firms that are trying to make money out of algae-biofuel (http://nualgi.blogspot.com/2008/11/list-of-biodiesel-from-algae-companies.html). Worth a look. …

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USAF: H Power Tests Positive.(H Power Corp.’s hydrogen-powered fuel cell systems tested by Concurrent Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article): An article from: Fuel Cell Technology News

Mark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:04:07 +0000

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Hydrogen Booster

Mark — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:04:05 +0000

Nissan 200SX Hydrogen Booster
Specific: General: Hydrogen Boost Fuel Injection System -

Hydrogen Fuel Cell, the most cleanest emissions fuel that can power a vehicle better then regular gasoline, while also achieving higher engine gas mileage, engine horsepower, etc. You probably haven’t heard much about it because the government doesn’t want you to know. Since 1990, the idea was crushed over and over again by our Government and giant Oil Companies. More details about our government

By installing the Hydrogen Boost Fuel Cell System you benefit yourself and your society in many ways:

Drastic increase in engine horsepower
Extreme gas mileage increase
Decrease the effects of global warming
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The installation is completely reversible and will not affect any car warranty. Installation Process.

The Hydrogen Boost Fuel System is reusable and you will be able to install it and reinstall in any of your future cars. The system will pay off for itself guaranteed. And on top of saving money, improving gas mileage, horsepower and emissions, you also will be making more out of your gas, every time you fill up your gas tank, you will not give your money away to CEO Oil Giants.

Features

Up to 30% Gas Mileage increase.
Increase of 5% in horsepower.
Greenhouse approved.
Extremely low emissions.
Simple installation.
System includes all hardware.
Installation instructions included.

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Thruster injector faceplate testing in support of the aerojet Rocket-based combined cycle (RBCC) concept (SuDoc NAS 1.15:208194)

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Amyris opens a pilot plant for No Compromise? renewable diesel

Mark — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:04:05 +0000

Amyris opens a pilot plant for No Compromise? renewable diesel
(automatically updated/inserted from The Envirofuels Blog) In a previous post we explained that Amyris, unlike other biofuels companies, was using their technology to create hydrocarbons from*feedstocks like sugarcane. Instead of producing ethanol or biodiesel they are using genetically modified…

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In a previous post we explained that Amyris, unlike other biofuels companies, was using their technology to create hydrocarbons from*feedstocks like sugarcane. Instead of producing ethanol or biodiesel they are using genetically modified yeast to produce hydrocarbons similar to those in petrol, diesel and jet fuel.The good news is that Amyris have recently announced that [...]

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A list of alage to biofuel firms
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog) The blogger behind nualgi has done us all a favour, and listed a whole bunch of firms that are trying to make money out of algae-biofuel (http://nualgi.blogspot.com/2008/11/list-of-biodiesel-from-algae-companies.html). Worth a look. …

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starter kit?????
hi people, my name is mark, im currently looking for a trial/starter kit, i can use to try and make my first batch of bio….. can anyone help etc….???? instructions, help, kits ..???? im handy with a welder and fab etc… but i wanted a small say 20L-50L first off, see if i can get the…

hi people, my name is mark, im currently looking for a trial/starter kit, i can use to try and make my first batch of bio….. can anyone help etc….????

instructions, help, kits ..????

im handy with a welder and fab etc… but i wanted a small say 20L-50L first off, see if i can get the hang of it

thanks

Fertiliser from By Product
Hi All I have beem making biodiesel for awhile now using KOH / Methonal for the catylast, and have a few hundred litres of by product “glycerine” black glug. Question: How can I turn this into fertiliser, is this possible and is it practial. cheers 05

Hi All

I have beem making biodiesel for awhile now using KOH / Methonal for the catylast, and have a few hundred litres of by product “glycerine” black glug.

Question: How can I turn this into fertiliser, is this possible and is it practial.

cheers 05

First Successful Trip
Good morning bio forum members!!:) I’m just reporting on a successful trip for the first time on SVO. (Canberra to Majors Creek Folk festival). Everything worked very well. I do need to tweak a few things though. The first is that I only used 1 20L drum for fuel. I’ll need something bigger. …

Good morning bio forum members!!:)

I’m just reporting on a successful trip for the first time on SVO. (Canberra to Majors Creek Folk festival). Everything worked very well. I do need to tweak a few things though. The first is that I only used 1 20L drum for fuel. I’ll need something bigger.

Also, I need to revisit my heating. I was hovering around 70C on the way up. Through town it was up past 80C. On the highway however I was losing heat, especially on the way home when the temperature dropped and I was only getting around 60C. I figure I might get another heat exchanger after the heated CAV. At the moment I’m thinking copper pipe wound around a coolant hose should do the job.

Apart from that, everything worked to perfection. I’d like to thank members of this forum for willingly sharing information and encouragement. It means a lot. Special thanks to those forum members who offered assistance and answered Pms. :cool::cool:

One thing that happened though. One bloke came up to me and said his mate had a WVO conversion for 4 years and wrecked his IP with gunk. He said salt was the culprit and to avoid using oil that comes from a shop where they fry fish all the time. He reckoned there was no way of filtering out the salt and that it erodes components over time. I couldn’t comment on this but thought I’d mention it on the forum. :confused:

Best wishes and thanks again.
Soc

New Reactor and other pics
Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/037.jpg The oil stock pile Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/038.jpg The pump meter and bowser below Image: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll192/rodeonick1985/039.jpg Image:…

The oil stock pile

The pump meter and bowser below

The processor room

The burner type Heater unit Thanks dave and wayne.

The Big boy reactor

Stage one WVO drying and heating system

KOH for reaction
Hi all, Am attempting to be as totally accurate as possible for my 2nd 100l batch. The first was a disaster. Am now using Koh with the Meth. Am using 250ml samples of oil heated by the sun (its hot here at present and getting hotter). Have found the best and most complete reaction is with 4 grams…

Hi all,
Am attempting to be as totally accurate as possible for my 2nd 100l batch. The first was a disaster. Am now using Koh with the Meth. Am using 250ml samples of oil heated by the sun (its hot here at present and getting hotter). Have found the best and most complete reaction is with 4 grams of Koh with 50ml/meth for the 250ml/oil. This results in 16grams/litre is this reasonable for a good reaction. When I decide to convert the 100l I will be heating it from the current 35-39 to 56.
Best regards:)

Holden Jackaroo for sale (Sydney)
I’m finally selling my diesel Holden Jackaroo, as I don’t really need a 4WD and I’m getting another Mercedes 300D. It’s been running on 100% Biodiesel with no problems for over 2 years. I’ve done a fair bit of work on it, but none of the problems have been fuel related. It’s only had a few off-road…

I’m finally selling my diesel Holden Jackaroo, as I don’t really need a 4WD and I’m getting another Mercedes 300D. It’s been running on 100% Biodiesel with no problems for over 2 years. I’ve done a fair bit of work on it, but none of the problems have been fuel related. It’s only had a few off-road trips, nothing more than casual weekends in the Watagans or Stockton beach, where it has performed very well.

1998
3.0L turbo diesel
Great fuel economy (10L/100km around town)
Manual
224,000kms
Serviced every 5000kms since I’ve had it.
Towbar
Decent wheels & tyres (Bridgestone Desert Duelers)
Excellent condition inside and out (no rust)
Rego 24 Jan 09

Work done in last 2 years:

Alternator and battery
Clutch master/slave cylinder
Glow plugs
Oil rail pressure sensor
Injector wiring loom
Cylinder head
All fluids (brake, clutch, diffs, gearbox)

$9700 ono

Located in Berowra. PM me or call me on 0433 815663

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Solix plans algae biofuel plant in Colorado
(automatically updated/inserted from The Big Biofuels Blog) Solix (http://www.solixbiofuels.com/)is planning to build a carbon-dioxide to biofuels plant in Colorado. It’s going to use carbon dioxide which is pumped to the Texas oil fields to help extract oil and use water that comes out of a…

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Solix is planning to build a carbon-dioxide to biofuels plant in Colorado. It’s going to use carbon dioxide which is pumped to the Texas oil fields to help extract oil and use water that comes out of a methane bed in the South Ute reservation. The story is buried in the middle of a pile of stuff about water use in Coloarado (that’s going to be a big big story someday)

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