by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Handling issues and cautions Sulfuric acid is dangerous. Take necessary handling precautions. Gloves and goggles. Adding the sulfuric acid to the methanol is violent exothermic reaction. It’ll boil like mad.. Make sure your mixing container has lots of head...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
An old water heater tank can be adapted to make a safe and inexpensive biodiesel homebrewing apparatus. An HDPE carboy (white jug in photo) or other tank can become a passive small-scale methanol-catalyst mixer, and an inexpensive centrifugal pump (blue motor in...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Handling issues and cautions Sulfuric acid is dangerous. Take necessary handling precautions. Gloves and goggles. Adding the sulfuric acid to the methanol is violent exothermic reaction. It’ll boil like mad.. Make sure your mixing container has lots of head...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Use Solar Preheating to liquify oils before filtering and processing. There three methods that are in use by homebrewers. 1. Paint a 55-gallon drum black and sit it in the sun. This works really well in the summer. This calls for moving drums full of oil, which can be...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Introduction What scales do homebrewers use in making biodiesel? The answers are endless, but if you follow a few guidelines in picking scales, it is possible to keep costs down. The smaller weights need smaller more precise scales, the larger weights need larger less...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Introduction For home biodiesel production, the 2-Stage Base/Base Process is now considered an established way to boost conversion rates compared to Single Stage Base Processing. Increased interest in higher conversion rates is partly the result of new feedback coming...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
In making Biodiesel we work with some dangerous chemicals. Methanol, Caustic Soda, Caustic Potash, and methoxide are the chemicals in question. All of these chemicals have been around a very long time and safety procedures have been developed that make working with...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Article Source – Yahoo Biodiesel Basics post by Dana Linscott: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biodieselbasics/message/73 In a previous post that I cannot seem to find now girl mark said something to the effect of “collecting wvo is a time consuming and...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ways To Prefilter Oil When it comes to pre-filtering oil, the SVO folks are the experts, regularly filtering down to 5 and even 1 microns. If oil is first filtered to 10-30 microns then heated to about 80-90F and held there in an insulated drum for 8 hours, the top...
by Biodiesel Community | Oct 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Dixie Cup balance scale: This is a ridiculously crude ‘scale’ that you can build to get started making small batches of biodiesel. The focus should be on ‘crude’. I invented this one day at a campout where a friend and I had wanted to...
