This is my first post even tho I have been recieving for many months, as I have read of the varous efforts to filter the Bio diesel, my thoughts keep going back to a friend of my Dads, who had a machine that was built in the 1880s by a rail road company, Any way this machine was a oil reclaimer, And the basis of how it worked was, the oil (used motor oil) was put in to the vessel, (looked like an old coal furnace) probly held 100 to 200 gallons of oil, the oil was heated to about 350 F for a period of time, and then a valve was shut to stop the venting after the heat was removed, and another valve was opened up and ran the oil to the filtering part of the unit, which consited of a few layers of brown wraping paper (simular to what a brown paper grocery sack is made of) layed over some type of screen grate, a layer of "fullers earth" (which to my under standing is bentinite clay) and air presure (aprox 100 psi) was added to force the hot oil through the clay/paper filter. (the one time I saw it, the fuller earth was about 1" thick), (he said diesel oil was very hard to remove the carbon out of or to make it look clear, gas engine oil was fairly easy to clean)
now he resold the oil to engine rebuilders in the 1960's through the 1970's, as they wanted a none detergent oil to break in the motors, he said that he had the reclaimed oil sent in and tested and said it met virgin oil requirments at the time, (He gave me the impresion that the heating and the filtering would remove many of the oil additives, but rember there were a lot less additives 25 to 40 years ago) My next point I know of a few trucking companies that would dump there used oil in to there diesel tanks and extend the fule or dispose of the used oil by using it as fule, but my thought has all way been if cleaned/reclamed motor oil was added to diesiel in small percentages, that there would be few if any problems and or if you do like the bio fule people do start and stop on regular diesel, Just my thoughts [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Tiny Wireless Camera under $80! Order Now! FREE VCR Commander! Click Here - Only 1 Day Left! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WoOlbB/7.PDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
