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Biodiesel from used
cooking oil
It is a wonderful thing to be able to make high quality fuel from used
cooking oil. BUT it is essential that to make high quality fuel a
few simple rules are followed. Basically when you receive your
waste oil it is often "murky" - this is not unusual. Remember it
has just come off the back of a truck. The key thing to remember
is you MUST let your used cooking oil settle for a MINIMUM of 48 hours.
This allows solids to settle to
the bottom of your tanks.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE BIODIESEL FROM SOLIDS. You will produce
lousy biodiesel. Garbage in - garbage
out. It applies to biodiesel as well as computers.
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This is waste oil one of our clients
purchased. Before we settled it, it just looked like a
murky liquid.
BUT 48 hours later, look at the difference. The white
stuff at the bottom will NOT make biodiesel.
Our customer paid 27p per litre for this oil. Only 70% was
useable. This made the true cost around 35p per litre. |
| The remarkable thing is that our client
processed this oil BEFORE he contacted us for help in the
quality of the biodiesel he was producing. It was a time
consuming process, but with
Magnesol and our filtration units the batch of biodiesel was
saved. A nice result, but it would have been much better
for the client to have settled his waste oil for 48 hours. |
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This is the finished article - before polishing. There
is now no trace of FFA's in the product following the Magnesol
wash and filtering. |
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Once the biodiesel was Magnesol washed and
filtered, all that was left was to "polish" it with our 4 pot
filters. The results? Incredible clarity biodiesel
as these 2 samples show.
This shows the immense power of our Magnesol washers and
filtration systems when used by an expert. The results
though would have been EVEN BETTER and much easier if the input
oil had been settled properly and filtered to 20 microns.
However you choose to make biodiesel, always settle the solids
out of your source waste cooking oil, filter it to 20 microns
and THEN use the incredible
power of Magnesol to wash the biodiesel - without a single litre
of water being used.
For more
details on Magnesol CLICK HERE |
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