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Bio-Diesel, SVO, or WMO
de-watering methods
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[QUOTE="brucem, post: 49884, member: 1556"] not to sound like a dick, but you couldn't be more wrong about the above. A gravity fed centrifuge spinning at 3450 or 6000 rpm, will dry and clean your oil in a single pass if you feed it slow enough. Sure startup cost is pretty high to do it right, but in the long run the savings in time, consumable filters, and electricity to boil oil you'd come out ahead in no-time. Each time you fill your truck up with a WMO blend, the money you are saving could buy a complete CF in 8 to 10 fillups. I regularly process 275 gallon batches of WVO via a centrifuge. Granted the oil has usually settled for a few weeks before I run a batch (which I'd recommend with WMO too), from when I pump it to the feed tote to when I pump it into a storage tote after processing it, I might put in 2hours hands on time. 20-30 minutes pumping to the top tote, fire up fuge, adjust temperature (punching an arrow on a digital controller), adjust flow with a measuring cup and stopwatch, go inside and get on with my life for 8-10 hours before going and checking flow rate again. Granted with WMO you would want to feed nice and slow to make sure you get all the carbon and gook out, but even at 2-3gallons an hour, you'd spend 5 minutes every 10 hours or so adjusting the flow, with the CF running. Also with WMO I'd bet one would want to stop the CF and check the amount of captured crap every 50 to 100 gallons or so and clean out as necessary. Cleaning is simple, take your wife's worst kitchen spatula, and scrape out the cake from the bowl. Then fire it back up. After your first batch or so you'd learn how long you can run it for before you need to clean it out, and the clean out can be done while the bowl remains in the CF depending on the model of CF you have. We're talking getting your WMO, WVO, hydraulic oil, transformer oil, WAFT, rendered beef fat clean down to the order of less than one micron, in 1 pass! While not forgetting that you maybe spent 5 to 15 minutes to do 50-100 gallons, depending on the amt of dirt caught in the bowl. No house water filter or spin on filter is gonna catch as much crap as a CF will, all while not costing you $'s every time you plus a filter or spin on type filter. I run my CF for 48 to 55 hours straight, unattended while running WVO from 4-7 GPH. gone 15k on ONE filter (7mic) on my WVO system, and I'm not even close to needing to change it. I have been pumping my cleaned oil thru 5 micron absolute bags for well over 2000 gallons and haven't seen more than a 3psi rise in pressure pushing thru the bag, and I would hazard that is from the different temps of the oil I am pushing thru it. Save your self a whole bunch of time, filters, and yeah time, get a gravity fed CF and wonder why you ever thought they were [B]"Seems time consuming and messy"[/B]. No I am not affiliated with any CF maker. [/QUOTE]
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