Keith,
Surely. I was hoping you would make room for it somewhere in the vast space
of the internet.
Also, anyone who sees it should realize that it doesn't cover oil/grease
collection, filtering and pressing the high oil content out of the filtrate
("burger pudding"). In many respects the "processor" side is the easy part -
the fruit of one's labors.
Todd Swearingen
> Oh, that's nice! (I got it too.) Can I upload it?
>
> Keith
>
> >Randal,
> >
> >Constructing a complete biodiesel system is a piece of cake. For the same
> >money that you might have spent at some of the sharpie sites that you
> >pointed out, you can build a far more environmentally sound "cradle to
> >grave" system and still have enough money left over for a 3 week trip to
> >Tahiti with the missus, inclusive of a sitter for the house, dog, gerbil
and
> >goldfish.
> >
> >I'm forwarding a MS Word diagram to you so that you may see the full
breadth
> >and scope required to manufacture biodiesel responsibly in a
> >micro-environment.
> >
> >It's rather self-evident that reality is a far cry from the slip-shod
> >representations of those concerns that would attempt to sell "half-assed"
> >processors that don't even begin to address the process.
> >
> >Some of the "niceties" can be eliminated, such as mechanical MeOH mixer
> >(carboy mixing by hand with a sealed gravity feed to the reactor. ---
> >Don't laugh. We've mixed up 55 gallons of methoxide at a time this way
when
> >making a 1,500 gallon total production run.).
> >
> >We strongly encourage alcohol recovery from both the fuel and the
> >glycero/MeOH whenever and if ever possible. The alternative is not at all
> >attractive as far as the environment goes, unless you have an end use
such
> >as http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html. With a little
common
> >sense a heat-exchange system that uses the recovered FFAs as a fuel can
be
> >set up. That leaves only the recovered glycerol to find an end use for,
> >which would serve rather well as a binding agent in a sawdust log. That's
a
> >considerably better use than mixing it with gray water and land applying
it.
> >
> >Todd Swearingen
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:06 AM
> >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Off-the-Shelf Processors
> >
> >
> > > Thank you Keith and Todd.
> > >
> > > I appreciate the benefit of your experience.
> > >
> > > Can I suggest that you are very likely to be hearing a lot more from
> > > people like me; sincere about getting off petrol, intelligent, busy
with
> > > the rest of their life, not mechanical.
> > > (Todd, this does not "put us out of our right minds").
> > >
> > > Obviously, "we" are ripe for buying poorly designed kits. However,
I'm
> > > still not excited about, nor able to free up a lot of time for,
> > > constructing my own.
> > >
> > > Now, Keith said to have faith in my own ability and to get some
advice.
> >OK.
> > >
> > > Is there a
> > >
> > > COMPLETE AND UNDERSTANDABLE SET OF PLANS, WITH PARTS LIST,
> > >
> > > for building a "two barrel" set up - 110 gallons feedstock per
batch?
> > >
> > > If not, I am certain there would be a market for such plans. I would
pay
> > > $100 or more for them.
> > >
> > > How many hours should acquiring the parts and assembling such a
processor
> > > take?
> > >
> > > Randal Son
>
>
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