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I have a comment for your page on: “A Guide To Making Your Own Biodiesel Fuel”. I have to wonder about writer’s ethics or general knowledge of biodiesel. The links to the home biodiesel manufacturer leaves me with lot of questions, but lets call it very loosely -business. You call that true tips and facts, what a joke? Actually it is not a joke, it is pathetic specially now during this economic crisis. Save thousands of dollars a year. Who are you kidding? It is articles like this that give biodiesel a bad name.
I have been involved in biodiesel for the past 6 years. Initially, when I heard about biodiesel, I did research on it for a year and a half and when I did not find anything wrong with it, I started distributing biodiesel. Now I consult various industries as to benefits of biodiesel. I talk to fleets, generator companies, government agencies, various unions, etc. I also buy and sell biodiesel and yellow grease as a broker. My Car runs on B99.9. That would be in a nutshell.
If you are recommending in your article to the general public to make their own biodiesel, there is much more to it then water heaters, water pumps, additional plumbing and wiring. Making your own biodiesel, could be a good idea. I was going to do it myself, but decided against it. Here are a few things you should consider and maybe pass on to your readers (customers). The process of making biodiesel is called transesterification. It is a simple process, but have to be very careful on several levels:
1. It is easy to end up making soap instead of biodiesel. Make sure you know how to reverse the process or you will go into soap business.
2. Once you make biodiesel what will you do with the glycerin.
3. You will not be able to know if your biodiesel meets the ASTM 6751 standard, but that is not that crucial. You will not know the quality of your biodiesel without chemical analysis. Many home biodiesel producers do not care. (Personally I care what goes into my tank). Actually diesel engines will take a lot.
4. You have to deal with methanol, which is highly flammable and explosive. (Methanol discouraged me, I have a family and neighbours).
5. You will spend a lot of time in the garage or your back yard dealing with oils and chemicals. I had a customer who was a chemical engineer and complained that he was spending hours upon hours every day to make 50 gallons of biodiesel per week. Eventually he started buying ready made ASTM 6751 biodiesel.
6. Now this might not apply to your link, but If you are looking on the web for a biodiesel making system BE CAREFUL, a number of companies claim their systems will make biodiesel easy and cheep. Lots of them will sell you the goods and you will not be able to make any biodiesel. Talk to people who are making home brew biodiesel already and make sure the system you are buying will do what you want it to do.
7. What is going to be your feedstock? Very Important in relation to the system you are using. Soybean Oil, Canola Oil from Costco are not that cheep. Restaurant grease has to be filtered a lot and the percentage of Free Fatty Acids (FFA) has to be lowered for proper transesterification. Usually it is a good idea to pretreat yellow grease (additional cost). All of this is time and money. How much is your time worth.
6. If you are going to use restaurant grease you might have to pay for it, have the ability to transport it and in some states you will need a permit. While working with it it really stinks.
Your article claims that restaurants will give it away for free. Maybe in your neighborhood, but in other parts of the country, if they know what waste oil is for they want a peace of the action.
8. Beware of spills.
9. Lot of information on the internet is not accurate. Do a lot of research.
If you do go for it and make your own biodiesel I wish you success. You will contribute to the well being of our environment and community.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Voya Mikulic
Biodiesel Consultant
voyamik@gmail.com