Posted this yesterday but it didn't come up. Not really sure what catagory to put it under.
Finally got to making BD and all is going fairly well. Started with 1L batches and now have graduated to 20L. All was going great until day before yesterday (my 4th 20L batch) I now have 20L of a jelly-like goo. Don't know what went wrong but it nasty stuff. If any of you biofuelers out there can give me a clue as to what I did, and if there is anyway to fix the problem it would be great. I'm not even sure at this point how to nutralise it. A small solution of the liquid portion(not much of that) mixed with a little Isoprpyl alcohol(begining of titration process) has a pH of at around 7.25(1 ml oil to 10 ml alcohol) if that means anything. Well anyway I have an 82 Benz that just loves the good stuff that I made and by the end of the summer I hope to have a genset built using a motor from a VW Jetta diesel. Plan to put magnets on the flywheel and build a stator housing to bolt over that. I'll reclaim heat fron cooling and exhaust to heat shop and part of house. Well that's the plan anyway will keep update in diary, as it progresses. In the meantime if anyone has any ideas what to do with the goo PLEASE let me know!! I'm going to transfer into 5 gallon buckets for now. |
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