If the oil is heated then cleaned properly, then we will be able to use it to make our biofuel, and the bus diesel engine will not be ruined and we'll be able to make the school bus run!!!
MATERIALS:
Procedures:
- Gather all your waste vegetable oil and pour it through an oil filter
- Get 15 liters of the oil into a 5 gallon jug. Heat the oil to 100 degrees by placing the jugs in a steel pot and heat with a camp stove. If you have more than that, repeat these steps. Don't try to increase the amount of oil you're processing at one time.
- Buy methanol. Make sure that the pump to transfer it is made of nylon; otherwise, the alcohol will destroy the pump and maybe even cause a fire.
- Mix the lye and the methanol in a coffee can. The result will be sodium methoxide.
- Clean the bucket, and pour in the oil. Pour half of the mix of sodium methoxide into the bucket. Wait two minutes and then add the rest of the sodium methoxide.
- Stir the mix with a drill for mixing paint. Do this for 30 minutes. Place a lid on the bucket and let it rest for 12 hours. Open the lid, stir a bit more and then reclose it and allow the bucket to rest for a few days.
- Filter the biodiesel again with a restaurant filter bag. The biodiesel is ready to be used as fuel.
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