Anyone making Biodiesel

mickredirl

Hi,

Have been looking into making biodiesel for the last two months. Is anyone out there making it currently? if so, where can you buy the methanol and Potassium hydroxide in Ireland?

Most chemical companies that I have been in contact with are not willing to sell anything to an individual!!

Buying Potassium hydroxide from out side Ireland can be done but is bloody expensive with delivery and taxes!!

Any way, I am just hoping someone can shed some light on sourcing the items in Ireland along with some extra information on production and experience.

Fingers crossed. Thanks :-)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058236889/anyone-making-biodiesel

You want dirt cheap "biodisel"? Collect takeaway used oil, filter, heat and drive. Smells is like fish and chips

JimmyVik

Ive heard a few people talk about using chipper oil in the last week. Surely the chippers will put the price up :)

Spoken to a couple of people now using green diesel. They never get checked so they arent bothered about getting caught. And their cars are old, so i dont think they are bothered about damage either.

Dakota Dan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118769134#Comment_118769134

Until they come around a bend some day and get the fright of their lives, that said I drove many miles in diesels and never met customs until one day after taking a cow to the meat factory with a shabby Nissan primera, met the customs coming up the road and the lad in the passenger seat leapt out of the car certain sure he had me nabbed until he heard the petrol engine 😀😀😀

I used vegetable oil in a Citroen xsara for a while 50/50 veg oil diesel mix, ran great on it and smelled like a chip van until they upped the price of chip oil after copping on to where it was all going. The cheapest oil is best but not great for more modern cars with direct injection, the xsara was ideal with the Bosch rotary pump with other pumps the oil would wreck the rubber seals.

mickredirl

Thanks for the info lads..

I wouldn't be putting chipper oil into the tank.. I know it's doable but your taking a chance on wrecking your car engine especially if it's only a few years old.

By using the potassium hydroxide and methanol in the right mix with chipper oil with some heat you could make great bio fuel that will run well in your car.

If my car was very old, then I would just throw in a bottle of cooking oil. But no, definitely wouldn't try cooking oil only.

JimmyVik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118775757#Comment_118775757

Maybe they just turn up at cattle marts :)

Ive driven Diesels for 30 years and never even seen a checkpoint where they dip.

Dakota Dan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118781785#Comment_118781785

I know a few that were dipped on backroads, one man was burning green and in the queue with beads of sweat on his forehead as he got nearer they were finishing up and the Garda woman with the customs waved him on, from that day in he never burned green.