Hi Andrew. When I was living on DC I used to go to a gas station new Mt Airy Maryland and buy B100 at the pump. I would fill up my tank and then another four five gallon yellow diesel fuel containers in my trunk. This would last me about three months.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:40 PM, andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: I have pretty much ruled out becoming a home distiller after reading all these excellent posts. The better choice would appear to be installing a system in the car to burn filtered WVO. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, ernest breakfield < erne...@backyardengineering.org> wrote: Andrew, will find much information and disinformation on the topic of BioD here and elsewhere. (for example, the horror stories you hear about BioD eating fuel lines; i've got over 70,000 miles on almost exclusively straight BioD on the same fuel lines that were in my '85 300D when i started using BioD over 7 years ago, and there still hasn't been any evidence of any need to change them. all you need to do if you're using quality fuel is watch them like you'd watch any other fuel lines from a previous decade, and change them out when they show signs of needing it.) as for availability of source oil, it's unlikely that anyone outside of your area will be able to tell you what the actual availability is in your area, and even then it'll vary from restaurant to restaurant. (generally, cleaner/less used WVO is better; sushi joints usually have cleaner and less overused oil than burger joints.) bottom line, if it's only cost effectiveness you're looking for you have to figure out if it's even worth it to you to go through the hassles of making BioD. even if the source oil is free and your time is worth nothing, how much would you need to use before the savings would pay for the equipment and the energy to run it? if you're only using ~10G/wk, it'd be over a year before you even paid for the equipment, and we're still not counting the cost of any of the chemicals. (i'm not even going to get into the byproduct waste disposal issue or the concerns about having some of those chemicals around, or the mess,... and am ignoring the fear-mongering about jackbooted thugs hired by renderers or our guvernment coming through your doors due to perceived tax and various regulatory issues. but if you check into it, you might find we can't even legally haul WVO without a renderers license and liability coverage!) if you're trying to use BioD for other reasons (like reducing petroleum dependency, environmental concerns, or just the joy of experimental hobbying,) your calculations of whether it's worth the fuss might be different. in that case, i'd probably encourage searching our your local B99 vendor and buying commercially produced stuff, and let someone else deal with all the issues. cheers! e On 15/Jul/11 10:59, andrew strasfogel wrote: We own three W123 turbodiesels so this is very tempting. Cost is about $1700 + $450 more for the "dry washing" feature. We have lots of restaurants that probably would be happy to get rid of their fryer grease; the main snag might be the cost and ease of obtaining NAOH (caustic soda). I also wonder how much lye and water is consumed per batch, and what the brew would do to our fuel lines., http://biobuddy.us.com/faq.**html <http://biobuddy.us.com/faq.html> ______________________________**_________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> ______________________________**_________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
