"Learn
how to make your own free diesel and heating oil. Plus tips on engine swapping
and off grid power generation."
You get another excellent book from The Fabricator. Just like the others. Except! "Alternate Energy" can mean solar, wind, water and other types of power. This volume covers primarily recycling of used motor oil, because many people are burning vegetable oil already. You can find info on vegetable, but not much on motor oil, so Steve concentrates on the resource most people ignore. But remember that these techniques apply equally to vegetable oil, too.
Look out on the road and you'll see countless vehicles. Each has a gallon or more of heavy oil in the crankcase. After it has accumulated enough dirt and sludge, it has to be replaced, and the goo recycled. So why not recycle it into your life? And you can.
Not long ago, talking to Steve, he pointed out he had not stopped at a filling station in months, and hadn't gotten an electricity bill in about 18 months. And he did it by picking up used oil, cleaning it, and burning it. He saved tons of money.
Chapters
include: basic chemistry, refinery products and operations, diesel engines,
practical alternative fuel technology, running on waste oil, installing a
diesel engine in a car, and off grid power generation.
He'll show you the secrets of oil filtration and clarification, viscosity testing, blending for viscosity, oil collection and storage, building a waste oil heater, building a tank shed, fuel dispensers and nozzles, atomizing burner for centrifuge sludge, running on waste oil, rewiring auto control circuits for a diesel engine, and much more.
Steve cleans oil with a centrifuge which he builds and offers commercially inexpensively. No detailed plans are provided. Probably for good reason. An oil centrifuge is large enough to be dangerous.
"I worked with all kinds of used oil, gear oil, transmission fluid, hydraulic oil and vegetable oils. For waste vegetable oil processes, the method of collection is a major influence on the properties of the oil, with gear pumps forming water emulsions. Probably 20% or more of the people who are using this process are producing heating oil for their winter furnaces. The viscosity and blending charts are good for this too."
Heavily
illustrated. Great detailed how-to from a guy who has DONE it! Steve teaches
the technical details few people know and certainly are not going to learn
by watching "American Idol". Get a copy, get started, and get ahead of the
game. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover 192 pages
No. 2111 ... $24.95
INTRODUCTION:
After successfully building and testing the homemade generator described in the title "Generators and Inverters," I assembled two diesel generator sets for the purpose of testing various fuels. During this period, the price of diesel increased from less than $2.00 per gallon to nearly $5.00 per gallon, making an off grid generator set far too expensive to operate on more than an emergency basis. Since the waste oil process was already outlined in the generator book, the natural progression of the project was to develop a practical method for waste oil burning in diesel engines. Two diesel generator sets were built, a 2 cylinder 1.6 -liter set with a 23.5 : 1 compression ratio and a 4 cylinder, 3.3 liter set with an 18 : 1 compression ratio. The 3.3 liter set has an optional turbocharger, which was not used during the test. After approximately 300 hours run time on the 1.6 liter diesel, another 2100 hours of fuel testing was performed on the 3.3 liter diesel. Subsequently, the process and equipment have been used in over 50 applications as far north as Iceland and as far south as Columbia with accumulated run times in the tens of thousands of hours. This book describes the science upon which I based my design decisions and the results of the tests. The centrifuge equipment described in this book is now available under the trade-name US Filtermaxx and sold by Refuelz.Com. PURPOSE: The purpose of this book is to describe properties, processing and use of waste oil as a fuel for use in diesel engines and burner applications. Projects including collection and conversion equipment for use of waste oil, engine swapping, silencing and disposal of process sludge. The equipment is suitable for a small shop and may be built primarily from scrap materials such as discarded propane tanks, sheet metal, pipe and scrap aluminum.
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