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Old 06-30-2009, 08:06 PM
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Getting started on biodiesel...?

So i am just looking into putting a filtration system together for used cooking oil and have no idea where to start. what is involved and do you have to spend like $1000-$2000 on a system or is there a way to just buy the filters and let gravety do the work......?

like i said, jsut getting started and no idea what im doing. and advice or direction to a site that has good reading on the subject would be appreacited.

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Running an engine on filtered veggie oil is not running an engine on biodiesel. Biodiesel, essentially, is veg oil with the glycerine molecule stripped out using an alcohol and a base in fairly precise amounts to create "fatty acid methyl ester", aka biodiesel.

Here are a couple links that taught me some stuff:

http://www.biodieseldiscussion.com/
http://www.biodieselnow.com

BTW, biodiesel rules!
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