Hello Johanna >Hi, another beginner to walk thru for you. > >I am planning on buying a new used car, heard about WVO and diesels >and wanted to get everything figured out. > >I read on your web site that some people are experimenting with >mixes for regular gasoline cars.
Biodiesel in gasoline engines http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make2.html#gas >I thought this would be just great. > >I can experiment with learning the process, and use the results in >my current car. >Be ready to move past the testing stage into bigger batches by the >time I purchase the new diesel car. It is experimental though, no guarantees. >I have a 1998 Hyundia Elantra GLS >I drive less than 20 miles a day back and forth from work. >I seldom drive at any other time. > >(I always use the trips home from work to pick up whatever I need, >almost never do a "shopping trip.") > >Therefore, a very small operation making only 1 or 2 liters at a >time would be just fine. > >I have my choice of 2 Chinese restaurants, 1 taco bell, 1 burger >king, and about 2 miles out of my way, a mc donalds. > >There is also a seafood restaurant about a block away from a friends >house that I could hit up. > >So, basically, for such a small scale operation, and considering >that it would be for mixing to begin with (about 5% for such as me I >think, forget that 15% stuff till later, if ever) > >Which restaurant is most likely to have the best WVO, and which >recipe would be the best to begin with? (I've been studying Mike >Pelly's biodiesel method) Don't start with WVO, start with small test batches of virgin oil. Start here: "Where do I start?" http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html#start Keep going. Read the whole thing, two pages. >Does cheesecloth have the 5 micron filter as required for the final >filtering, or is there another material that's not listed? Quite a lot of people don't do any final filtering. If you do it right all the crud will be in the by-product layer, not the biodiesel. And you'll only be using 5%. >I like the air stone method, it seems more workable for me. Would >there be a problem for a beginner to use this? Stirring is better, but you can use bubbling. It oxidises the fuel, with resultant risk of polymerisation, but at only 5% blended with gasoline I guess you don't have to worry about that. >When I do the washing, can I use regular water or do I use more >distilled water? Tap water. The final wash water should be the same pH as the tap water. See: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_bubblewash.html Washing >Is there a picture (or many pictures) on what it means to create "an >electric pump plumbed to form a mixing loop" for stirring the WVO >and Sodium Methoxide? Check the processor section at JtF, especially this one: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor10.html Journey to Forever 90-litre processor But for making 1 or 2 litres at a time you'll hardly be needing a pump. Mix the methoxide this way: Methoxide the easy way http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_aleksnew.html#easymeth >I also liked the idea of adding a "small cheap, clear or translucent >plastic inline fuel filter" before my installed fuel filter. Is this >hard to do? Not hard, good idea, especially at first. >Thanks for all the awesome information, if I read it enough times I >might eventually get it, though I think it will take actually >working thru it a couple of times. You can make biodiesel more or less immediately, but it takes a few months at least to get to know what you're doing and know you're getting the quality right. >Blessings >Johanna > >Oh, one last question. (for this e-mail anyway) > >How does the bio diesel effect the gas mileage? >My car gets about 25 miles per gallon. Opinions seem to vary, but there's not much in it anyway. Best wishes Keith >Thanks again _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
