Try a Small Test Batch
Here is what you will need
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1
Bottle of gas line antifreeze
THE
YELLOW BOTTLE HEET BRAND
It
is methanol. NOT the Red bottle it is alcohol.
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1 can of lye (granular
such as Red Devil Drain opener).
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1
empty 2 liter pop bottle rinsed out
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1
small funnel
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| Container of cooking oil. Corn, Canola,
Soy, any of it will work. New Oil NOT used.
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Glass Jar with lid.
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Safety
Gear
Important
stuff !!!!!
Rubber Gloves
Goggles/Safety Glasses
Long sleeves
Long pants
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Ok, now that you have
every thing gathered up one more important step!
**
STOP READ THIS FIRST **
Methanol
(Heet Gas Line Antifreeze)
is flammable!
Do
NOT breath the methanol fumes.
Lye
is caustic and will case burns to your skin.
No
Open Flames.
Do
NOT Smoke while doing this.
Disclaimer
**
Proceed At Your Own Risk **
Omaha
Biodiesel LLC does not accept any
responsibility or liability for what you are about to do.
Proceed
with caution and at all time USE COMMON SENSE!
Ok the steps....
Measure out 250 ml of
the Methanol (Heet gas line antifreeze) in a glass jar with lid and seal
Measure out about 1/2
teaspoon of the lye.
Add the lye to methanol
in the glass jar and seal tightly.
Start mixing the lye and
the methanol. This will take some doing and you will notice the methanol
will get warm which is normal.
Measure out 1 liter of
the cooking oil and heat it in a pan to 120 deg F. No hotter than 120 deg
F! Methanol will boil off at about 147 deg F and you will not have any
reaction take place.
While the cooking oil is
warming up, continue to mix the lye and methanol until ALL OF THE LYE HAS DISSOLVED.
Again, this will take some doing as the lye does not dissolve easily in the
methanol.
When the oil has reached
120 deg F, using the small funnel, add it to the empty pop bottle.
Once all the lye has dissolved
in the methanol, add it to the warmed cooking oil in the pop bottle. Place
lid on pop bottle tightly.
Mix the cooking oil and
the methanol/lye mix by shaking the pop bottle.
You do not have to mix
violently but do mix for about 30 seconds.
Over the next hour;
every 15 minutes, shake the mix again,
After the last mixing,
let the mix sit for about an hour. You should see a clean separation of
glycerol and Biodiesel..
The Biodiesel will be
the lighter colored liquid on top and the glycerol will be the darker colored
liquid on the bottom.
This is what you should
have...
The cooking oil used in
the test batch in this photo was used, so it may be a little darker than your
results.
That's it! You
made a liter of biodiesel.
The next steps would be
to drain off the glycerol, then wash the biodiesel and dry it, and then burn it
and save!!!!!!!
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