Would you rather have A huge mess or a manageable mess? Make it in
small batches as the experience gained each time will prepare you for
larger batches. When things go wrong - and they will - you will not be in
for a really bad day - only a bad day. WVO is a much more challenging
level, Work up slowly is my advice.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 6:00
PM
Subject: [Biofuel] I need some
advice
I have stumbled on about 200 gallons of WVO in the ~5 gallon
containers that it came in. That part is great! I'll be picking it
up this weekend. Now, the tricky part - in the spring I broke my ankle
while skateboarding. That put an immediate halt to my processor
development. Its probably 80% completed but, I don't even really
remember what I was working on last. Now the even trickier part - my
wife is not likely to be too patient with me having 50 - 5 gallon containers
in the garage for too long. Now, I have 2 empty 55 gallon drums that I
could put about half of it in but, I'm not sure if I want to tie those up for
that purpose. Ok, so the question here is, do I work on the reactor to
process the oil or do I just get down to the knitty gritty and make
biodiesel? I could use the 5 gallon containers that the oil is in and
just use the simple bucket method to get the job done. I suppose I feel
a bit more confident in the simple method (probably because I have less waste
if something goes wrong). I guess that I should add that at this point,
I've only ever done test batches. I haven't done anymore that a gallon
at a time. What do you think?
I hope everyone is doing
well!
Take care,
Ken
Lancaster County,
PA
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