Pat said... > My biggest challenge thus far has not even been the figuring out my budget or financial concerns as it has been finding an adequate WVO oil supply to keep up with my propossed plant size (1000 US Gallons input per 24 hours period). Of the 50 or so restaurants I've queried in my immediate area none of them [net totals] cycle out oil fast enough to meet my needs. (Which is quickly narrowing down the restaurants that I patronize.) > > Vegetable oil gets to the viscosity of used motor oil quickly with heavy usage. I dont understand trying to stretch the oil (topping off old oil), it makes the food taste like soap after a while. I've written in an incentive program into the model that compensates restaurants for their WVO, but I'm trying to avoid that for the moment. However I may wind up resorting to it, if WVO quality is too poor.
I think to begin with you'll have to use commercial oil collectors, but also build up your own collection service. I think disposal costs and the messy hassle good reasons why producers don't change the oil. Of course another is a skinflint attitude to raw materials costs. If you are prepared to take the oil free of charge or even pay for it, and collect proptly you should be able to get a better quality. This should reduce your clean-up costs, improve the biodiesel yield and reduce waste or low grade secondary products. Helpfully sized barrels will also assist the producer. I believe that as we get known among producers the RVO supplies will grow. But we'll have to actively market that side of the business as well as the nice clean product side. There's also the situation when another biodiesel plant sets up nearby. If you are already providing a good RVO service they won't be able to (at least not so easily) undercut you. Dave > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
