Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-09 Thread Andreas W Ohnsorge
Plse see below Andreas - can you please post this on the biofuel list as I am not able to due to being unable to stop my mail program (pegasus) from using rich text, which is rejected. Thanks I've been using used oil 50/50 in my 123 Merc for about 15,000 km so far. I get the oil in 25 L

Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Andreas W Ohnsorge
Dave, I have made the same experience with filtering WVO - it seems that very small organic particles clog the filter. My way around this is to warm the WVO up to about 60 degrees Celsius, let the solid particles settle for about 4 - 6 hours and then suck the oil from the surface with a hose

Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Legal Eagle
is filtering WVO straight into the reactor. http://home.swbell.net/scrof/Biod_Proc.html Luc - Original Message - From: Andreas W Ohnsorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel

Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Andreas W Ohnsorge
to biofuel To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO Have a look at Dale Scoggins set up. Scroll down the page to his filters. He is filtering WVO straight into the reactor. http://home.swbell.net/scrof/Biod_Proc.html Luc - Original

Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Jonathan Schearer
Dave, have a look at this and see if it might help you. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/search.asp?search=ez+strainersx=10y=8. DAVE C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I am using Kentucky Fried oil to heat my house with an oil gun boiler which I have connected to my hot air furnace. My problem is

RE: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Mel Riser
When I was in high school I worked at McDonalds on the morning shift opening the store. One of my jobs was to filter the French fry oil. We used a big round stainless tank on wheels that had a pump and some paper filters in the bottom. The procedure was to light the fryers and once the oil

Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Legal Eagle
sufficiently it should work. Worth a try anyway. Luc - Original Message - From: Andreas W Ohnsorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 6:56 AM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] filtering WVO Luc, I have already tried

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Legal Eagle
: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO When I was in high school I worked at McDonalds on the morning shift opening the store. One of my jobs was to filter the French fry oil. We used a big round stainless tank on wheels that had a pump and some paper filters in the bottom. The procedure was to light

RE: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Mel Riser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO When I was in high school I worked at McDonalds on the morning shift opening the store. One of my jobs was to filter the French fry oil. We used a big round stainless tank on wheels

Re: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO

2004-11-08 Thread Legal Eagle
ask though. Thanks. Luc - Original Message - From: Mel Riser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 11:44 AM Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Filtering WVO Yes it all goes into the grease vat outside and where I worked at the had a contract with Griffin

Re: [biofuel] Filtering WVO

2001-09-24 Thread Oscar Pet Foods
At the moment I pre filter my waste oil through the finest denier tights or stockings I can find (I get a few funny looks when I go into the local shops to purchase these). the waste oil is then heated in a steel barrel. A small pump keeps the oil 'mixing' and this is again pumped through a

Re: [biofuel] Filtering WVO

2001-09-24 Thread steve spence
] (212) 894-3704 x3154 - voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - Original Message - From: Pip J. Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Filtering WVO I

Re: [biofuel] Filtering WVO

2001-09-23 Thread steve spence
some use coffee filters, pantyhose, cheesecloth, etc. It's easier if it's hot. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter: http://www.webconx.com/subscribe.htm Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.com Mirror Site http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (212)

Re: [biofuel] Filtering WVO

2001-09-23 Thread Pip J. Patton
I don't have a good way of heating it, so what's a good filter for lukewarm/cool oil? On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:55:01 -0400 steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: some use coffee filters, pantyhose, cheesecloth, etc. It's easier if it's hot.

Re: [biofuel] filtering WVO

2001-08-10 Thread Edward Beggs
The Cummins in the Dodge is a direct injection engine and therefore may not a good candidate for SVO. I say may not, because I don't think that anyone has yet demonstrated one way or the other that the technique of using only 70 deg. C+ SVO, and probably a biodiesel startup and shutdown fuel