Hello friend, I think you should put the whole lot in a big container, and let it stand for about three weeks. After that, you will find, that the top layer is usable BD. The rest is probably a mixture of soap / water / glycerin or what so ever.
Met vriendelijke groeten, Pieter Koole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Byers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:37 AM Subject: [biofuel] contaminated Biodiesel > Hello all, > My name is Adrian, and I have a little problem. > > I recently bought a 1982 GMC Suburban as a work truck. It has a 6.2L diesel > engine, which excited me, since I could start running Biodiesel in it. but > it had been sitting for two years. I gradually switched from regular diesel > to Biodiesel, and after 2 weeks of running pure B100 in it, I changed the > primary and secondary fuel filters. > > About a week and half ago (2 months after I bought the truck) it hesitated > and stalled. Eventually, it just died. I checked the filters, and found a > little water in the secondary. I have towed it home, and pumped the tank > dry. I suspect that the ultimate problem was water or fungus in the fuel. > My question is thus- > After I am done purging the fuel lines of ANY foreign matter, I am sitting > here with 20+ gallons of B100. The final gallon from the very bottom of the > fuel tank is in a glass jar that after 2 days of settling, has a 1/2 to 1 > inch thick layer of whitish scum at the bottom of it. I would rather not > throw away all of the other biodiesel that I have. What can I do to refine > it to a more useable state? Pump it all into glass jars, and suck the good > biodiesel out of the top, and leave the debris? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me > offline if you wish to save bandwidth for other subscribers. > > Adrian Byers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > 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/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ 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/
