Dieselcraft Oil Centrifuges
for Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO), Waste
Motor Oil and Biodiesel
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Contamination removed without a filter
Re:
Dieselcraft centrifuge, wow! #1
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Here is a picture of the stuff. The right is the cleaned for
two hours. Got most of the flour out.
I made some bio with it just the other day and went and
drained the glycerin out and it seems to have made pretty good
bio. This was the nastiest oil we've used yet too. I'm happy
with it.
Eric
Re:
Dieselcraft centrifuge, wow! #2
Thought you
guys might find this interesting.
I have some nasty floury oil that i have and i finally used
the centrifuge on it. This is after running it for only 15
minutes.
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Sorry for the quality, they were taken
with my phone.
Eric
I would like to drop you a
line. I bought a centrifuge a few weeks back and I was
very skeptic that it would work. I live in anchorage AK
and it has been pretty cold. I have tried many different
methods and kits that just didn't cut it. I have now been
using the centrifuge for about 2 weeks and just amazed at
what it can pull out of the oil I get.
Just to let you know it works
and people need to try one before they write it off. best
300 dollars I have spent so far. I will try to get some
pictures when I clean it out. I show my wife so she can
see that I did waste the money.
Thanks Tim Forbus
Mark
Cold spring, NY
Test Results:
After heating two 55 gallon
drums to 140 degrees F we centrifuge one drum with an
OC-20 and filtered the other with a 1 micron sock filter.
We then took samples from
each filtered batch and placed them into test tubes to
centrifuge back at the lab. We found that the debris
pellet from the OC-20 was double the size of the debris
pellet that resulted from the sock filter.
We then centrifuged the
drum again with the OC-20 and found that the debris pellet
was 1/2 the size of that of the sock filtered oil.
We determined that
centrifuging the oil twice was good enough for our
performance needs.
We run a 1999 F-350
Powerstroke 7.3L with a Banks stingerplus system and
custom exhaust, intake and a programer on tow mode.
We pull and 15,000lb Fifth
wheel and have noticed that we get 800 miles on a parker
2020sm filter while pulling and close to 1500 miles when
not pulling when we centrifuge our oil twice.
At $6 a filter we do not
see the need to waste anymore energy heating and
centrifuging the oil a third time.
Hope this is helpful
Mark
Sam Crowe,
Casper WY
01 June 2007
How clean is Dieselcraft clean? Well apparently very clean.
After 6000 miles on my truck, here is a perfectly clean vegoil
fuel filter.
Cleaning
of Biodiesel:
April 2007
Dear Dieselcraft,
I have
been working with using my OC-20 centrifuge and pump to
filter out sediment from Biodiesel. After three years of
struggling with trying to clean Biodiesel, I feel that I
have found the solution. Dieselcraft’s centrifuge system has
streamlined my operation to where I can produce up to 50
gallons a day and not have to wait for a filter bag in the
mail or drive to Home Depot for a new filter cartridge in
the mid-filtering process. It is easy to clean. In about two
minutes, two swipes with my finger and one paper towel, I
am back in business. It was a bit of an upfront investment,
but it is well worth it by losing the hassle of using
filters in the cleaning process of making Bio.
I have been
centrifuging both 130 degree and 37 degree Bio-Diesel
without any problems.
I am
currently using Magnesol to clean my fuel and needed to find
a way to clean the fine sediment out without spending a
large amount of money on filters. Just one time through my
system has produced excellent looking (and running) fuel. I
still run it for an additional 3 hours to be on the safe
side and find only minute traces of sediment pulled out of
the Bio-Diesel so I can clean hundred of gallons before
cleaning it. I have been in a time crunch felt confident
with putting unwashed, but centrifuged bio-diesel into my
Ford F-350 for driving long distances.
Thanks
Dieselcraft for all your help and I will keep on telling
other people about your products,
Jake
Bend, OR
jrusby@cocc.edu
Waste Vegetable
Oil
SunWizard Posted
25 September 2006
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/159605551/m/2001011761/p/1
I just ran my first batch of 15 gallons of WVO
straight from the restaurant barrel, 100 micron screen on
sucker, through the centrifuge with no other filtering and it
works great. Easy to clean, no more filters to buy. Runs at
90psi, 1 GPM. I was surprised since Dana had me scared it
wouldn't work from
this thread.
Here is my rig, it goes pump>heater>centrifuge>barrel:
The pump is a free power steering pump off a 84 Mitsubishi
Montero, hooked to an old 1725rpm 3/4 hp motor I had. As small
as 1/4 hp should work, this is what I had laying around:
This pump was easy since it had a rubber line going to the
reservoir which I just turned upward and attached my inlet
hose:
This goes into a 4500w 220v water heater element run at 110v
(=1125w) in a tee in the bottom of the 1.25" vertical pipe.
The oil started at 50 F and got up to 110 F first pass. I did
3 passes with decreasing amounts filtered each pass, lots in
the first pass, with almost no black sludge 3rd pass.
Here is the black gunk that stays in the rotor (edit-better
pic):
You guys working on the "holy grail" of mobile flash
evaporator and filtering might want to look into this since
with a little higher temp it might do both. Or you could do a
flash or vacuum evap. then right into this. At 120 F I was
seeing small puffs of steam or atomized oil when pumping the
hot oil through 2 small orifices at 90psi. This oil was
water-free to begin with according to a pan test.
The oil I started with was black and you couldn't see through
it at all. And here is the sweet iced tea drinkable looking
WVO after only 15 mins for 15 gals:
SunWizard Posted 14 October 2006
http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/159605551/m/2001011761/p/7
I had a PM asking for more detailed pics so here are some
more. Centrifuge in the barrel. The Tee before it is the
pressure relief valve with a plastic elbow over it to direct
the flow down:
Posted 30 October 2006 03:55 PM I have pictures of the setup
that Tom Maring and I are using posted here:
photos of this installation
The centrifuge pictures are on page 3 after all the other
pictures of my Veggie Conversion. Tom gave the latest data a
few pages ago. Will hopefully have some data tonight or
tomorrow. In the mean time, I'm enjoying all the dialog
about the finer points of using this spinner. Thanks again
SunWizard and Joat!
Travis
With everything hooked
up I added some very creamy oil, a pan test confirmed the
obvious there was no lack of water. I heated the oil to 120
or so and began spinning at 80-90 PSI, I waited about an
hour then shut it down to inspect, I was dying to see what
the results would be. I put a jar under the output and
turned it off, this way I could catch anything that came out
as it wound down, I removed the cover and once it stopped I
quickly removed the rotor and put it over the jar to drain.
Black liquid came out …. WATER! I opened the Rotor and there
was so much stuff in there I could not believe it. I added a
couple pics, in the homebrewer folder, I created a folder
called centrifuge, there are all in there. After running it
for a while and cleaning it several times I have some very
clean dewatered WVO, I pan tested an not a single bubble,
the oil started smoking
before I realized there was just not going to be any
bubbles. I have already purchased the parts to include an
in-line heater to act as a flash evaporation. Feel free to
drop me any questions.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Biodiesel/
Tim
t_vandenberg@yahoo.com
Posted 28
January 2007 02:48 PM
The Dieselcraft centrifuge DOES work great. I reconfigured
my Teel pump with 1/2 tubing from the 1/4 inch ports on the
pump, 1/2 tubing return and 1/4 inch to the Dieselcraft. I
have great control over the pressure and ran a lot of oil
all day yesterday and into early this morning at constant 85
PSI.
I did try a larger Teel pump (two sizes larger than the one
discussed here), it was a mistake. I was thinking I'd have
an all purpose pump but it is to powerful to narrow down to
a 1/4 pipe. It might work well with two smaller
Dieselcraft's or one of the larger ones. I'm make a transfer
pump out of it.
When I redo my design I'm going to fix it so I have one
drain point that I can drain all the pipe and avoid having
it jell in all the pipe and tubing in this cold weather.
But, the Dieselcraft works as Sun first suggested.
Sam
Interestingly, I transferred dirty oil from one barrel to
another through the Dieselcraft, since there was air getting
into the pump my CF operated at 70 PSI max. After the
transfer finished I cleaned the Dieselcraft and it contained
a bit of oily black sludge. I put it all back together and
ran it at the normal 85 to 90 PSI and then when I cleaned it
contained a 1/8 inch layer of caked black deposit, more like
damp coal dust. It only goes to support the large difference
cleaning between running at 70 PSI and 90 PSI.
Sam
2002 F250 Vegistroke
SunWizard
Posted 23 May 2007 09:27 PM The CF removes water for me, and
is the ultimate on-the-road rig I have heard of. I drain off
free water before CF, and don't suck from the bottom 6" of
barrels. Most of my posts to this thread are ways to make it
as hands free as possible. I suggest you read the summary at
the top of page 1, then as much of the rest of the thread as
you can handle.
Author Topic:
Dieselcraft centrifuge works great -My filter and dewater
rig
Posted 06 August 2007 10:57 AM
veggiecar300
Here is before and
after picture of samples of about 15 gal of oil which have
spun for almost 20 hours.
It's hard to know when to stop. I was thinking of stopping
at this point, and starting another batch.
It looks good, but this picture gives me pause:
It's still pretty chocolaty, but Sun said
"stop after a noticeable change" and the change is
noticeable. Now, I can see through spots of metal on the
coating of brown in the rotor - when before it was a solid
coating of brown.
My oil must be really dirty. I frankly can't imagine anyone
running WVO without a centrifuge at this point. There is no
way I could clean this oil with just settling
Why
Dieselcraft Centrifuges?
5 Year Warranty
All nickel plated internal parts to save the centrifuge from
corrosive waste vegetable oils
Compete control valve with pressure gauge and bypass valve
Universal aluminum mounting plate for easy 55 gallon drum mounting
Proven performance to remove contamination to less than 1 micron in
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