Originally Posted by OsbornFamily
Hey all!
After 6+ months of trial, error, more trials, more errors, and lots of colorful language, my DH is finally producing BioDiesel of great quality! (He makes the BD, I work on the trucks)
Now that he's got the process down, he's producing in greater volume. This naturally means more waste.
Since the back of my property is starting to look like a toxic waste dump, and I don't want the county on my butt, is there an easy process out there to recover the methanol from the glycerol? He won't do complicated (hence the waste dump), but if I can say "hey! It's really simple" we can "gett 'r' done."
Or, if there's another way to dispose of this stuff please let me know. I'd like my pasture back.....
THANKS!
Removing the Methanol is not hard at all. Check out my gallery, I posted pics of the still I built. I recover 25 percent of my Methanol which cuts down my cost of production. Troy is right on when he says to switch from NaOH to KOH. It mixes much easyer makes less fumes and the glycerol is a liquid down to 0 deg F.
If you mix 150 deg water 50-50 with the hot glycerol from your still, you can use it for fertiliser, but only if you use KOH. The NaOH based glycerol when mixed with water makes a great weed killer, just don't get it on any plants you want to keep!
After the Methanol is removed you can feed the glycerol to cattle at a rate of 10 percent by weight. Koh based glycerol makes a great liquid soap and de-greaser, and NaOH based glycerol makes a hard bar soap.
Good luck and let us know how it goes!
FABMANDELUX.
Troy, still haven't heard anything from the Grange about the "buss" yet...........