My guess it's a thermal cracking unit. Uses waste oil to generate it's own heat energy. I wonder what's the yield on this?
BTW, I have a 5 gallon bucket of used oil that I'm willing to donate to the cause, and a 55 gallon drum at another location, but the waste oil maybe contaminated with ATF and gear lube.

MikeyB

 

Thanks... But I have a mobile oil change company... www.freedomoilservice.com I get a lot of the stuff... Straight oil with no atf or gearlubes. about 60-100 Gal a day >> I get $.15 per Gal from recyclers but I think that is going to stop. $2.29 is the cheapest diesel around here and I burn through 400-500 Gal a Month!
(Math Looks Ugly)

Big materials will be in tomorrow and if it is still raining... I will get started >> If not I got to go make some money!

OilGuy

 

Nice website Oilguy. With that much waste oil available you better have a tanker close by!

MikeyB

 

Try this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

 

I am very interested/curious about this method of alternative fuel. I am kind of familiar with the theory a guy I use to work with spoke of such a concept. Mainly what I am curious about say I use approximately 75 gallons per month of diesel, how large of a plant would I build, and roughly how much does it cost for materials?

Is there any mileage difference?
Are the pollutants more or less than petro fuel, for emmision testing sake
What is the btu of said alternative fuel?

 

Now how did I get dragged into this.

 

i hope the epa don't find out

The primary problem with burning unprocessed used motor oil
is environmental:
www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/ usedoil/campgn/en-dumpbr.pdf

The used oil is classified as Hazardous Waste and has to be
disposed of in accordance with the EPA regulations (if you reside in
the U.S.). These rules have a solid basis. Used oil contains toxic
chemicals and heavy metals which can escape when burned in an
improvised burner.

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?p=m...icp=1&.intl=us

 

I guess the "EPA" should ease their snip regulations and not make the oil companies make so many blends and the Gov should cut taxes on the fuel that they have NO hand in producing and we won't be looking for crude alternative methods of powering our rigs!...
Sorry... I just woke up and kinda grouchy....

OilGuy

 

Looking at his location, he is in College Station, and being that im in Ohio, you are a WHOLE lot closer..... I didn't feel like driving 3000 miles to see it for myself.

 

I am just wondering what kind of filtering system is cleaning the used oil up. I wonder about using with a VP 44 or common rail.
Just here at work we drain over 1100 gallons a month out of our engines

 

This sure sounds too good to be true. We all know you can run a diesel on oil but there are several problems with that. Is this "system" actually producing quality grade fuel or just filtering motor oil? If something like this was that simple with no caveats, it would have been done a long long time ago. Motor oil and diesel fuel have been around for 100 years.

I remain very skeptical ...

 

Being skeptical is healthy...
One of my hero's once said:
"Trust but verify" - Ronald Reagan

And this has been done a long time ago... in fact in 1854 in Penn and Cali.
people were converting crude oil into lamp oil and 2 grades of kerosene.

And think about it... If you came up with a GREAT Idea that was so simple and everyone wanted it... wouldn't you try to make it look really complicated and technical?? Would you keep the truth hidden so that you can monopolize the market? You would almost be like the big oil companies!

OilGuy

 

I remember a war movie where the orphanage had a bus to evacuate the kids before the japanese army got there and it ran on some kind of gas from a pot of coal with enough fire to produce vapors which were then hand pumped to the engine. When the enemy got close, the little fella pumped like crazy for more speed. Seems like they lost their brakes going down a hill...I forget who the hero was.
Anybody else remember that?

 

Ok Oilguy, what you have there is plans for a still.

MikeyB

 

Oilguy

How many gallons of the recycled oil will it take to make 1 gallon of #2 and how much waste product do you end up with and where do you despose of the waste.