I ran my car on used oil for over 70,000 miles. You don't have to make bio diesel to make an diesel engine run. I used to just filter my used oil and boil it to get the water out of it and then pure it straight into my Mercedes 300D. The Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil back in the days. You just need the old injector systems on you engine as the new engines will not run just filtered oil as the seals are designed to run diesel because they do not want you to do this. I have an old Mercedes 309 D van that runs on just pure vegetable oil without having to make boi diesel. Because you will not be able to get the methanol and the other chemicals in an SHTF situation. You can just run pure oil in the old diesel engines, even the old oil you can use when you change the oil in your engine. Also you can make a waste oil burner to burn the waste oil so that you can use it to heat your home in the cold weather. We have can have low emissions using waste oil but the government don't want you to know about this and blames everything on global warming because they want their taxes!! I used to make bio diesel to run the more modern engines on my VW 2002 car.
Thank you for sharing that .I knew that the 1st engine run on peanut oil .But do you have any tips or system we can buy to make pure vegetable oil run on every diesel motor???
@@piyushnishandar He is quite accurate but you need to measure how much methanol to use with the old oil. There used to be loads of videos on TH-cam. Don’t know if they deleted them so have a look there.
@@roykoffi7942 No pure vegetable will not run on every Diesel engine because the manufacturers don’t want you to do this. My mate has an old Toyota Hi lux and that can run straight veg oils I had an old citron saxso running the same. Any modern car after 2002 will have problems running homemade bio diesel. So the older Diesel engine the better especially the old Mercedes engine like my 309 van.
Thanks for the video, Jon. I made this for 10 years and ran my VW Caddy on 100% Biodiesel. Less pollution and the engine was less noisy. Good to see people are still doing this.
I have a 2001 skoda octavia 1.9 tdi and i followed this video to the latter and filled my tank and managed to get 716 miles to a full tank of bio. Thanks so much for this straight shooting video on how to make biodiesel :)
This is a good video with simple and clear instructions, but did you know that you can make ALL the ingredients here yourself? Sodium Hydroxide is commonly known as Lye. You can make lye by filling a container with a small hole in the bottom with wood ash (the white powdery stuff left over when wood is burnt), placing the container onto some kind blocks to lift it, then fill the container with rain water. Put a bucket under the container, where lye will trickle out. You can use a pH test strip to measure the lye, it should have a pH of 13. If you don't have a pH test strip, you can use a chicken feather - place the feather in the lye and if it dissolves, the lye is ready - if not it need to be poured back into the container with wood ash. Lye can be dangerous in liquid form; do not touch it or it will dissolve your skin. It will also dissolve aluminum and even etch glass. The best container for liquid lye is stainless steel, but you can use what you have if you are careful - just not aluminum. Rain water you can collect from the roof of your house or by leaving a bucket outside in the rain. Rain water is clean and naturally distilled, so this is what you should use for making lye or other chemicals. Methanol is commonly known as Wood Alcohol, and you can easily make this by "cooking" wood in a still. The wood gets placed into a pot with a sealed lid, and a hose that allows the vapors to condense. Heat the wood, over a stove or fire while it is in the sealed pot, and then allow the vapors to condense into a bottle. The liquid will be methanol. Notice here that you can make methanol first, then use the spent wood ash to make lye. This makes oil the most difficult thing to acquire, but you can also get oil from any source of cooked meats if you do not have a way to press your own oil from plants.
Potassium carbonate, not potassium hydroxide, is the principle water-soluble constituent of wood ash. Also, the distillate obtained from the pyrolysis of wood contains more acetic acid than methanol. Several other compounds are also present. It would take significant effort and resources to obtain the needed reagents this way. It would almost surely be less 'green' than highly efficient commercial production is.
The big take-home here is that you can use what you already have and turn it into something that you need. Instead of running to the closest shop and buy. What is good for your wallet is also good for the environment. A very useful lesson.
@@junkname9983 Yep. I guess you could make your own lye from hardwood ashes and methanol could be a byproduct of your own brewery and distillery, but that sounds like more work than just paying a little extra for disel. Either way, better than throwing out that oil I guess. I hope the byproducts get properly treated and taken care of, tho.
My comment, copied and pasted: You don't need Methanol to make bio-diesel, you can use Ethanol. And Sodium hydroxide, or Potassium hydroxide can be made fairly easily, starting from kelp/seaweed ashes and wood ashes respectively. Once the (mostly) Sodium carbonate, or Potassium carbonate is obtained from the ash, it is then reacted with Calcium hydroxide (perhaps 'milk of lime') and produces Sodium, or Potassium hydroxide by a metathesis reaction - Calcium carbonate precipitates, leaving you with solids and a liquid (the hydroxide). The needed Calcium hydroxide can be produced by 'burning' limestone, or seashells, or various other sources of Calcium carbonate - even snail shells. Using Methanol to produce bio-diesel, results in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs). Using Ethanol to produce bio-diesel, results in Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters (FAEEs). If making it yourself, from scratch, Ethanol is what you want to use, because you can make alot of it more easily. Neither are very hazardous, but of the two, Ethanol is preferable. For more info: - Study up on alcohol distillation (Ethanol) and while you're at it, 3A molecular sieves, or tapioca pearls, or maize/corn (Non-GE please!!!), which can be used for removing water from the Ethanol (once already distilled to above 80%) to bring it up ABOVE the azeotrope, which is around 95.6% for Ethanol. You need as close to 100% Ethanol as possible. Very useful if you plan to run 2-stroke, or 4-stroke engines. - Learn about the 'lime cycle' and how to make Calcium hydroxide using a source of Calcium carbonate mentioned above, or another which is abundant where you live. -Learn how to extract the Sodium carbonate, or Potassium carbonate, from kelp/seaweed, or wood ashes. Learn how to produce the hydroxide by the metathesis reaction with the Calcium hydroxide. Also search any of the words, or terms I mentioned in this comment which you may be unfamiliar with. Or any others you may need to know while researching. It's amazing how much you can learn in a short amount of time starting from a place of very little, or no knowledge. Best wishes!!!
Very impressive solution to several design problems, I like that this minimizes your exposure to harmful fumes unlike using a traditional still and heating the petrochemical mixture up, the water bottle separation tanks is quite ingenious.
As an American I say, VERY IMPRESSIVE video!! WHEN global disaster strikes... the old Christian saying; " The first shall be LAST & the Last shall be FIRST" will very much apply to YOU & your family!! Best wishes & good health to your family!!
i love the way you guys use what you have at hand, adapt and improvise, the final product you guys made looks almost exactly like the diesel you get at the pump here (minus the dyes that indicate if its Over The Road "Taxed" diesel, or Farm use "Non Taxed, NON D.O.T" Diesel, stay safe
I'm pretty sure we will All need to know this priceless lessons on how to produce our own sources of energy, as well as producing our own food, and fertilizers, reducing use of chemical additives. We are going the 'Back to Basics' way. Many, many thanks for sharing your wisdom and experiences with us. Blessings to you and your Family & Community!!🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏
i mean he needs product that you have to buy , in order to going back to basic you need to be able to make everything you need to mkae the engine works , in my opinion going back to basic would be using steam engine
Thank you for this very well produced and informative video, I hope others in the developing world, without access to more expensive equipment, can learn from this and be self sufficient as well....
@@hiteck007 I made it like that when I first started but it saves a lot of time to make larger amounts; here in the UK 100 litre copper hot water tanks are ideal.
Excellent video. Thank you so much!! So many of us around here are trying to prepare for another hard winter with no heat and electricity, but fuel shortages and outrageous prices stop us in our tracks. So even with a generator, we couldn't do what we needed to do. Worse, nobody knew how to make fuel. Thank you so much for this excellent video. Your wisdom, skill and ability to teach every step of the processes are excellent beyond compare. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for putting this out I heard the formula was pretty easy but you made it very easy thank you so much I hope the best for you take care be safe
Excellent guys!!! In terms of economy. It's a better idea. Also, you can improve quality with some more homemade items. But till this stage as an engineer to reach cost effective biodiesel I would say yours is the best.
I have a focus 2010 1.6 diesel and I run mine on kerosene with a little sunflower oil in it to thicken it up a little. been working fine for 2 years now.
@@bradroon5538 Biggest cause of global warming is water vapour. That's why they are constantly cloud seeding. CO2 is a trace amount in the atmosphere 400 parts per million and even that is exaggerated as they take their sample from Hawaii which is in the biggest volcanic region on the planet.
Hey @jon. You can make your own 98% alcohol using sugar, water, yeast, and a small distiller. This could reduce the costs (no need to buy Methyl Alcohol). You can also reduce the cost by making your own sodium hydroxide with salt, water, a battery, 2 pencils, and some copper wire. Hit me up if you want the instructions. :)
@@chamal1986 There are very detailed instructional vids on YT. Basically, you ferment sugar, water & yeast for about a week, distill it 3 - 4 times to get 98%+ alcohol. Sodium hydroxide, you use 2 pencils (the graphite is what you're after), in a solution of saltwater, and attach a battery to hte setup. This will create the process of electrolysis, which forms Sodium Hydroxide crystals.
Unless the ethyl alcohol is above 96%, which it won't be after just regular distillation, you will run into problems of emulsions and soaps forming due to presence of water.
Excellent video and information! Never seen it done like this before! Only filtered.. great idea whoever worked this process out is genius! Lol.. Don't think this would run a BMW engine as modern engines don't like biodiesel but I think older diesels with less complex engines and higher tolerances less performance will run on this better Thanks from London England 👍😎🏴
Apparently new holland says you can run at least b20 in a lot of their common rail engines in combines and tractors while I think the biggest one is good for b100, and the 6.7 powerstroke has b20 on it
Master Jon you have wisdom of God. you are of great help to many people. I am so blessed by your videos. Glory to God for sharing the information. indeed with good brains there is mo poverty and we can overcome monopoly
@@jonahcombs451 Well pretty much the process is the same as you would use to make spirit alcohol. Most plastic is make from oil. Just like an oil refinery can make all kinds of liquid fuels from crude oil, like: petrol, diesel, kerosene etc. You can get all those fuels from plastic. So when you refine plastic you will get not just diesel but all kinds of different fuels at the same time: petrol, diesel, engine oil etc from the same plastic. It's actually not that difficult either! th-cam.com/video/njIYHtFmcSs/w-d-xo.html.
You can do this from most bio material as well. Burn it and reduce the smoke at various stages for crude oil. Then refine the crude oil for more liquid fuel.
That is an interesting process. I have also seen stills that are made for turning plastic into diesel. I wonder if the used oil could also be poured in and heated with the plastic to distill the diesel from the oil and plastic together?
I used coconut oil and it did real fine.. Iused cone bottom tanks, Kept records of my biodiesel, Great on my MB 240D 33MPG, no soot, no smoke. still slow but had a power pulling. I would have continued if the price went beyond $5.00 a gallon. I like coconut oil because of Kinetic Viscosity of 1.9 at 60degC, Iodine number kept low, other characteristics. Catalist of KOH at 7.8Grams per liter of absolute alcoholI prefer Absolute Alchol (Ethanol) for ease of separation and safety.
That's so clean a modern car would drive with it. In Germany, farmers use old motor oil. Simply filtered through a towel. Mixed with 50% diesel in winter. Sometimes black clouds but it works very well.
Very simple and informative thank you. I wrote this in a notebook for the future. Being dependant on the gas companies is not a good thing especially as they keep raising prices to oppress the people.
Just some advice, you could cut your methanol usage in your reaction, my standard reaction is 80litres of veg oil at a time and 12 litres of methanol, which is obviously only 1.5l per 10l - I know it will only save your 500ml but it is a saving. It will also ensure there is no free methanol left after the reaction. You can still use your 5 grams of NaOH per litre of biodiesel (or 50 grams per 10 litres).
@@cristianca889 He is using methanol. Depends where you are, methanol (and ethanol for that matter) is cheaper that diesel in most countries. I can buy 2 litres of methanol for same price as 1 litre of diesel.
Did you try to burn the leftover oil directly in the diesel engine, without the esterification? Of course, after proper filtration and cleaning and pre-heating of the oil. I used to fuel my old diesel with vegetable oils with a small add of normal diesel fuel for a better viscosity of the mixture. It worked out fine because the old engine could handle such fuel.
Great video man, thanks for the great explanation. I've subscribed straight away as I feel you have so much to teach me :) Greetings and Love from England
There is no such thing like grease O line its called glycerine and is a buy product, because plant fats are glycerine fatty acid esters. Glycerine is not usable when it's that dirty... Normally it's a colorless clear sweet tasting and very thick liquid...
He replied to others that there is a way to make soap out of it, but not easily. So he puts it in the compost pile, it breaks down. Now that's interesting...
@@elgur4512 I wasn't making the suggestion from any particularly scientific point of view, but seems to me that the infrastructure for supporting electric cars isn't really in place and they don't have particularly good range or performance. Liquid fuelled cars are tried and tested technology on the other hand, and I think the transition from petrofuels to biofuels would be easier than petrofuels to electric.
@@elgur4512 It's the burning of fossil fuels _specifically_ that's the major environmental concern...the amount of CO2 produced by biofuels will be in a dynamic equilibrium with the plant matter they're derived from (no additional CO2 will be added to the Earth's atmosphere). Personally, I'd like the infrastructure to be in place _before_ I switch to an electric car, rather than having some vague promise about it happening at some time in the future. The very infrastructure itself may have problems. The overwhelming bulk of the world's electricity is still generated from fossil fuels, and this really isn't going to change any time soon whilst developing industrial superpowers like China and India are far more concerned with their economies than the environment. The quest for ever increasing quantities of lithium for the batteries of electric cars is itself going to cause major environmental problems. Like you said: we'll see...
Truly impressive ! without degree s in chemistry or chemical engineering this BRILLIANT man has developed a simple , cheap yet quality product . We need to recruit him into military intelligence, as this guy can figure out how to "get her done ! " . My hat it tipped to you Sir :)
This is the best video on how to make biodiesel that I've seen this is the way that anybody can do it they try to make it complicated on the other videos thanks for the share
Jon you are amazing, when you learn how to create hydrogen and oxygen from water you can add (as engine is running) and reduce the amount of diesel used in the engine as well. You will need some scrap stainless steel to begin and an energy source - electricity.
HHO seems useful for some stuff, but more dangerous for other stuff. I personally wouldn't put a tank of it in a car, but that's just me - although i'd hope the people driving around me would think the same. Isn't the water quite toxic after using stainless electrodes? Would some kind of carbon electrode be better? An endless supply of electrodes that you can make yourself would be great!
@@Kyle-sg4rm carbon rods out of batteries would do but less efficient. I've been playing with aluminum water a acid the acid removes the oxide layer and allows the water to react with the aluminum. Hho
@@patrickweir9666 I was thinking Aluminium, but then thought about the oxide and lower conductivity. But you may have a way around that! Would household vinegar (5%), or cleaning vinegar (10%) be strong enough? Acetic acid + Aluminium oxide in electrolysis = Aluminium acetate?
@@patrickweir9666 Aluminium could potentially be extracted from certain plant ashes - Sorghum and other grasses are good candidates. So Aluminium electrodes could potentially be sustainable in the middle of nowhere - which is important to me and some other people.
It's very dirty glycerine. Glycerine is an alcohol. Plant fats are esters, meaning they have an alcohol and an organic acid chemically bound by an ester group...
Yeah, I have made it like that in a lab when I was first learning out. There are processes to make it go faster but as Jon said, they don't have access to it. So, this way works and that's what they use.
This is no longer viable in the UK as chip shops soon cottoned on to it, and began charging more for the old oil. At best it costs around £1 - £1.30 per litre to make now, as opposed to several years ago when it cost a mere 40p to make.
1.5 million tons of Fatty Acid Methyl Ester annually to Germany from the Philippines is a big slice off Germany's share of Petro diesel. Not counting the cocodiesel used by Philippine Government's vehicles.
I think the key factor here from an economic stand point is to use "USED" cooking oil. At least around here, even the cheapest cooking oil costs about $8/gallon in bulk, while regular diesel is about $4/gal. But this is about the best use of used cooking oil other then burning it straight in a furnace. You can probably sell the glycerin by product as well.
There in Peru we'd take the truck and exchange buckets with the restaurants. They'd fill them and we'd give them an empty bucket. That would then get dumped into a 500-gallon tank through a filter screen and the process would begin. We had a complicated setup and the piping looked like a nightmare until you got used to it. But the same pump would move the product around through its paces.
Can we use oil which is used more than once or twice. How much bio diesel we get after all processing from 10 ltrs of oil ?? Plz also tell how to separate the water. Thanks
We can use old oil which is used more than 2 times. We will get a little less than 10 liters .It's depend on the quality of oil too. How to separate water from oil is quite easy because oil is lighter than water . They will be separated then we suck it out from the top or drain the water out from the bottom.
When you boil the oil initially, cover the container airtight, with a hose coming out of the top. Then bubble the fumes from the hose through water to refine the oil. Clean oil will collect on the surface of the water. You can repeat the process many times to refine the oil to useable bio-fuel. It is called distillation. You can distil waste plastic back to oil in exactly the same way. 1 kg of plastic = 1 kg of useable oil which can be refined to gasoline.
Now this sounds pretty interesting idea, since there is multitude of plastics around and if i can turn them into fuel... mmmh possibilities of circumventing fuel tax.... I need to research this further.
@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy This is so amazing, sir. I could learn, I mean any ordinary man could learn anything in this world. It is so inspirational by looking at you at this age with full of drive to learn more and would still wanna do something for people, community and environment. Thanks a lot, sir. I am looking forward to seeing more videos in future too. Keep up the good work.
@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy Just a farmer, but making your own fuel, and finding a way to use one thing for so much proves you superior to most who did. They waste everything.. They make things disposable, and then they blame the rest of the population. Thank you for being who you are. - USA
@@oswaldoriginal7587 It is the biodiesel that sigificantly reduce the unwanted smoke or unburned fuel. Less to no smoke is cleaner engine, less wear. Should we need to reduce air pollution from combustion engines, it is the plant base oil or fuel that can help the existing petroleum oil and fuel perform better and as an effect, longer engine life. Petroleum companies are aware of this but they do not want you to know about it.
@@unliyou Lucky its only the waste cooking oil. What if we plant more oil palms in order to produce diesel? Other scientist say, nearly all the remaining jungles on earth will have to be chop to be oil palm plantation to get that amount burnt by humans
@@lightdark00 The question asked is what is it it goes by various names depending on country Methylated Spirit in Australia, Denatured alcohol in the US its technical name is Ethyl Alcohol.
Making biodiesel using simple methods without using technology is absolutely brilliant! Thank you for showing us how!
can we directly use this fuel for deisel engines or should we mix this biodiesel with real diesel ?
@@nithinsai2250 pour direct into your tank. No need to mix with diesel.
@@nithinsai2250 yep its good to go..... this youtuber is brilliant out of necessity.... 100% straight shooting guy
Used to use oil for years as diesel. It won’t work on the new engines thou
So how does he get all the water out?
I ran my car on used oil for over 70,000 miles. You don't have to make bio diesel to make an diesel engine run. I used to just filter my used oil and boil it to get the water out of it and then pure it straight into my Mercedes 300D. The Diesel engine was designed to run on peanut oil back in the days. You just need the old injector systems on you engine as the new engines will not run just filtered oil as the seals are designed to run diesel because they do not want you to do this. I have an old Mercedes 309 D van that runs on just pure vegetable oil without having to make boi diesel. Because you will not be able to get the methanol and the other chemicals in an SHTF situation. You can just run pure oil in the old diesel engines, even the old oil you can use when you change the oil in your engine. Also you can make a waste oil burner to burn the waste oil so that you can use it to heat your home in the cold weather. We have can have low emissions using waste oil but the government don't want you to know about this and blames everything on global warming because they want their taxes!! I used to make bio diesel to run the more modern engines on my VW 2002 car.
This is insane, are there any practical videos of this, could u plz share some authentic ones. Thanks
Thank you for sharing that .I knew that the 1st engine run on peanut oil .But do you have any tips or system we can buy to make pure vegetable oil run on every diesel motor???
So if i have the old oil i just need to boil at which temperature i have my old scania 82 engine
@@piyushnishandar He is quite accurate but you need to measure how much methanol to use with the old oil. There used to be loads of videos on TH-cam. Don’t know if they deleted them so have a look there.
@@roykoffi7942 No pure vegetable will not run on every Diesel engine because the manufacturers don’t want you to do this. My mate has an old Toyota Hi lux and that can run straight veg oils I had an old citron saxso running the same. Any modern car after 2002 will have problems running homemade bio diesel. So the older Diesel engine the better especially the old Mercedes engine like my 309 van.
Thanks for the video, Jon. I made this for 10 years and ran my VW Caddy on 100% Biodiesel. Less pollution and the engine was less noisy. Good to see people are still doing this.
Hello my dutch friend, do you have experience with biodiesel on commonrail diesel car?
Regardts from Duisburg
I have only used it at less than 10% on our 2014 Renault Trafic, which, as far as I know, has a common rail. The engine ran well.
@@DutchAussieProductions mhhh 5 %is in evry tankstation
@@DutchAussieProductions but what do you think i destroy my commonrail system if i Refuel 100% selfmade biodiesel?
@@unalersoz I suggest you ask the engine manufacturer before you use it.
I have a 2001 skoda octavia 1.9 tdi and i followed this video to the latter and filled my tank and managed to get 716 miles to a full tank of bio. Thanks so much for this straight shooting video on how to make biodiesel :)
Can you make this from any oil that is used in car bcs of different oils in petrol and diesel engines ?
@@tedyyyy123 biodiesel only for diesel engines.
1.9 TDI PD or VE? The PD will not last long. VE doesn’t have many problems with it
Bong, your English is really good. Thank you for the great tutorial!
Understandable not good
Good clean english, thank you for your help.
@#AllesAufDenTisch very true
Actually he is English but speaks with a Scottish accent
Is it real!
You dont need to make excuses on what you use. You dont need machines and stuff like that . You are a genius.
he isnt making excusess? what the hell are you talking about?
This is a good video with simple and clear instructions, but did you know that you can make ALL the ingredients here yourself?
Sodium Hydroxide is commonly known as Lye. You can make lye by filling a container with a small hole in the bottom with wood ash (the white powdery stuff left over when wood is burnt), placing the container onto some kind blocks to lift it, then fill the container with rain water. Put a bucket under the container, where lye will trickle out. You can use a pH test strip to measure the lye, it should have a pH of 13. If you don't have a pH test strip, you can use a chicken feather - place the feather in the lye and if it dissolves, the lye is ready - if not it need to be poured back into the container with wood ash. Lye can be dangerous in liquid form; do not touch it or it will dissolve your skin. It will also dissolve aluminum and even etch glass. The best container for liquid lye is stainless steel, but you can use what you have if you are careful - just not aluminum. Rain water you can collect from the roof of your house or by leaving a bucket outside in the rain. Rain water is clean and naturally distilled, so this is what you should use for making lye or other chemicals.
Methanol is commonly known as Wood Alcohol, and you can easily make this by "cooking" wood in a still. The wood gets placed into a pot with a sealed lid, and a hose that allows the vapors to condense. Heat the wood, over a stove or fire while it is in the sealed pot, and then allow the vapors to condense into a bottle. The liquid will be methanol.
Notice here that you can make methanol first, then use the spent wood ash to make lye. This makes oil the most difficult thing to acquire, but you can also get oil from any source of cooked meats if you do not have a way to press your own oil from plants.
thx dude for sharing
Sodium hydroxide from the ash of coniferous (softwood) trees / building lumber. Potassium hydroxide from the ash of deciduous (hardwood) trees.
That was very interesting and helpful knowledge. Thank you very much!
This comment is like a Gold thanks for sharing
Potassium carbonate, not potassium hydroxide, is the principle water-soluble constituent of wood ash. Also, the distillate obtained from the pyrolysis of wood contains more acetic acid than methanol. Several other compounds are also present. It would take significant effort and resources to obtain the needed reagents this way. It would almost surely be less 'green' than highly efficient commercial production is.
The big take-home here is that you can use what you already have and turn it into something that you need. Instead of running to the closest shop and buy. What is good for your wallet is also good for the environment. A very useful lesson.
they still have to buy methanol and lye from somewhere, it's just slightly cheaper than buying diesel.
@@junkname9983 Yep. I guess you could make your own lye from hardwood ashes and methanol could be a byproduct of your own brewery and distillery, but that sounds like more work than just paying a little extra for disel. Either way, better than throwing out that oil I guess. I hope the byproducts get properly treated and taken care of, tho.
your channel is a preppers dream for learning how to live cheaply and naturally , best for us and environment. thanks!
As a prepper how would you get sodium hydroxide 😕???
@@strangescience3414 by getting before shtf?
My comment, copied and pasted:
You don't need Methanol to make bio-diesel, you can use Ethanol. And Sodium hydroxide, or Potassium hydroxide can be made fairly easily, starting from kelp/seaweed ashes and wood ashes respectively.
Once the (mostly) Sodium carbonate, or Potassium carbonate is obtained from the ash, it is then reacted with Calcium hydroxide (perhaps 'milk of lime') and produces Sodium, or Potassium hydroxide by a metathesis reaction - Calcium carbonate precipitates, leaving you with solids and a liquid (the hydroxide).
The needed Calcium hydroxide can be produced by 'burning' limestone, or seashells, or various other sources of Calcium carbonate - even snail shells.
Using Methanol to produce bio-diesel, results in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs).
Using Ethanol to produce bio-diesel, results in Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters (FAEEs).
If making it yourself, from scratch, Ethanol is what you want to use, because you can make alot of it more easily. Neither are very hazardous, but of the two, Ethanol is preferable.
For more info:
- Study up on alcohol distillation (Ethanol) and while you're at it, 3A molecular sieves, or tapioca pearls, or maize/corn (Non-GE please!!!), which can be used for removing water from the Ethanol (once already distilled to above 80%) to bring it up ABOVE the azeotrope, which is around 95.6% for Ethanol. You need as close to 100% Ethanol as possible. Very useful if you plan to run 2-stroke, or 4-stroke engines.
- Learn about the 'lime cycle' and how to make Calcium hydroxide using a source of Calcium carbonate mentioned above, or another which is abundant where you live.
-Learn how to extract the Sodium carbonate, or Potassium carbonate, from kelp/seaweed, or wood ashes. Learn how to produce the hydroxide by the metathesis reaction with the Calcium hydroxide.
Also search any of the words, or terms I mentioned in this comment which you may be unfamiliar with. Or any others you may need to know while researching.
It's amazing how much you can learn in a short amount of time starting from a place of very little, or no knowledge.
Best wishes!!!
@@strangescience3414 See my comment buddy.
@@jesuschristislordoflordsan427 See my comment buddy.
Very impressive solution to several design problems, I like that this minimizes your exposure to harmful fumes unlike using a traditional still and heating the petrochemical mixture up, the water bottle separation tanks is quite ingenious.
This dude's voice is amazing & instructions are very clear
I'm from England, UK and found this very easy to understand
Cheers
Knowledge is king! 😁
Thank you for taking the time to make this video, much appreciated.
As an American I say, VERY IMPRESSIVE video!! WHEN global disaster strikes... the old Christian saying; " The first shall be LAST & the Last shall be FIRST" will very much apply to YOU & your family!! Best wishes & good health to your family!!
probably not gonna be a lot of used fryer oil available during the bible disaster. unless chickens invade and we gotta fry dem.
@@bobdolerules21 You have flax seed plants that grow very easily for making oil.
I thought you gonna say "as an american i will come to your home and i will take your biodiesel"
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i love the way you guys use what you have at hand, adapt and improvise, the final product you guys made looks almost exactly like the diesel you get at the pump here (minus the dyes that indicate if its Over The Road "Taxed" diesel, or Farm use "Non Taxed, NON D.O.T" Diesel, stay safe
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this! Much appreciation from Australia.
Well done Jon Jandai! Good tutorial and a great process you have there.
Easy to follow process, thank you Jon....
This is the best, clearest video on how to make biodiesel I have ever seen. Thank you!!!!
Wow. Reminds me of the original YT videos that were very simple and taught how to do something DIY cheap and easy. Great video!
Thank you for this GREAT video! One of the BEST I have ever seen of how to do things simply!
Thank you. I am stumped because of the complicated containers needed. You make it very simple, thank you
I'm pretty sure we will All need to know this priceless lessons on how to produce our own sources of energy, as well as producing our own food, and fertilizers, reducing use of chemical additives. We are going the 'Back to Basics' way. Many, many thanks for sharing your wisdom and experiences with us. Blessings to you and your Family & Community!!🤗🙏🙏🙏🙏
i mean he needs product that you have to buy , in order to going back to basic you need to be able to make everything you need to mkae the engine works , in my opinion going back to basic would be using steam engine
In uk diesel is now £8:40 a gallon !!!
Absolutely fascinating, and a great how-to. Nice work!
Simple method. Simple tools. GREAT result. Thank you for sharing this video
SUPER...THANK YOU FOR ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU SHARE WITH US
He's not saying "grease-olene" he's saying glycerine.
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahaha
thanks :d
Oh...hehe..little accent
He means glycerine but he's saying grease o lean
Glycerine makes soap
Thank you for this very well produced and informative video, I hope others in the developing world, without access to more expensive equipment, can learn from this and be self sufficient as well....
I've been making biodiesel for about 15 years. Well done these guys.
I like the narration. Simple, slow and clear.
Sir I m from India ...
Kindly request u to share the recipe if possible .....
Please sir ....
Please kindly reply me regarding the same
You should do a video on your setup & process. I bet it's different slightly.
@@hiteck007 I made it like that when I first started but it saves a lot of time to make larger amounts; here in the UK 100 litre copper hot water tanks are ideal.
Is this legal in America, for everyone and not just for some?
Excellent video. Thank you so much!! So many of us around here are trying to prepare for another hard winter with no heat and electricity, but fuel shortages and outrageous prices stop us in our tracks. So even with a generator, we couldn't do what we needed to do. Worse, nobody knew how to make fuel. Thank you so much for this excellent video. Your wisdom, skill and ability to teach every step of the processes are excellent beyond compare. Thank you again.
Very informative, thank you for disseminating the knowledge
You have NO idea of what this guy did or where to get what he was using or quantities....waste of breath.
Great work. Easy process and it's great to re-use stuff you all ready have instead of buying stuff.
Thank you so much for putting this out I heard the formula was pretty easy but you made it very easy thank you so much I hope the best for you take care be safe
Excellent guys!!! In terms of economy. It's a better idea. Also, you can improve quality with some more homemade items. But till this stage as an engineer to reach cost effective biodiesel I would say yours is the best.
Best setup, simple basic yet very effective.
Very ingenious, simple process and very inexpensive to do!!! Thank You for the information. God Bless you and your family!!!
Wonderful thinking and well spoken, thank you sir for sharing. Old Australian man thanks you all.
I have a focus 2010 1.6 diesel and I run mine on kerosene with a little sunflower oil in it to thicken it up a little. been working fine for 2 years now.
We appreciate you more and more because you are there to help us to self reliant.
Thank you
This is an excellent video. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, Good people.
This is also the way it is done industrially. The CO² imprint of this fuel is close to 0%, because up to 100% renewable. Great job!
the metanol might not -the grease should be burned with the metanol
It should make you feel good to know that CO2 as a cause of Global Warming has been scientifically proven to be false.
The planet has had ICE AGES when CO2 levels were over 2,000 and 4,000 ppm CO2. If CO2 levels caused heat this would have been impossible.
@@bradroon5538 Biggest cause of global warming is water vapour. That's why they are constantly cloud seeding. CO2 is a trace amount in the atmosphere 400 parts per million and even that is exaggerated as they take their sample from Hawaii which is in the biggest volcanic region on the planet.
@@wullymc1 Lol, you're just supposed to sound "sciency" and keep to the agenda, not put out facts and stuff...
That's white supremacy RACISMS!!!
Thank You 😊
Very Practical Information
You folks are so smart! I'm glad you found a way to save money and materials this way. I will copy you to save money, too. Thank you from USA
Great useful demonstration !!! Congratulations and thank you !!!
Impressive. Thank you for sharing.
Hey @jon. You can make your own 98% alcohol using sugar, water, yeast, and a small distiller. This could reduce the costs (no need to buy Methyl Alcohol).
You can also reduce the cost by making your own sodium hydroxide with salt, water, a battery, 2 pencils, and some copper wire.
Hit me up if you want the instructions. :)
Pls give me more details and how to make it
@@chamal1986 There are very detailed instructional vids on YT. Basically, you ferment sugar, water & yeast for about a week, distill it 3 - 4 times to get 98%+ alcohol.
Sodium hydroxide, you use 2 pencils (the graphite is what you're after), in a solution of saltwater, and attach a battery to hte setup. This will create the process of electrolysis, which forms Sodium Hydroxide crystals.
Unless the ethyl alcohol is above 96%, which it won't be after just regular distillation, you will run into problems of emulsions and soaps forming due to presence of water.
brilliant, i love you and your great methods of self sufficiency. be proud of yourself, regards from uk.
Best instructions I’ve ever watched on this subject. Good English too thanks from Seattle USA
Excellent video and information! Never seen it done like this before! Only filtered.. great idea whoever worked this process out is genius! Lol.. Don't think this would run a BMW engine as modern engines don't like biodiesel but I think older diesels with less complex engines and higher tolerances less performance will run on this better
Thanks from London England 👍😎🏴
Apparently new holland says you can run at least b20 in a lot of their common rail engines in combines and tractors while I think the biggest one is good for b100, and the 6.7 powerstroke has b20 on it
Nothing new this has been done since it was discovered centuries ago.
Master Jon you have wisdom of God. you are of great help to many people. I am so blessed by your videos. Glory to God for sharing the information. indeed with good brains there is mo poverty and we can overcome monopoly
This is a great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You make it look so easy, I have no excuses left. Gotta try this. :)
You can also make a diesel alternative out of old recycled plastic quite easily!
Never heard of that, how does that work?
Could u share some authentic link for this. Thanks
@@jonahcombs451
Well pretty much the process is the same as you would use to make spirit alcohol. Most plastic is make from oil. Just like an oil refinery can make all kinds of liquid fuels from crude oil, like: petrol, diesel, kerosene etc. You can get all those fuels from plastic. So when you refine plastic you will get not just diesel but all kinds of different fuels at the same time: petrol, diesel, engine oil etc from the same plastic. It's actually not that difficult either! th-cam.com/video/njIYHtFmcSs/w-d-xo.html.
You can do this from most bio material as well. Burn it and reduce the smoke at various stages for crude oil. Then refine the crude oil for more liquid fuel.
@@johnjackson9767 Is that a similar process to 'wood gas'?
That is an interesting process. I have also seen stills that are made for turning plastic into diesel. I wonder if the used oil could also be poured in and heated with the plastic to distill the diesel from the oil and plastic together?
Great video, I love learning this stuff
Thanks for sharing the way you make your biodiesel.
You guys are amazing
I used coconut oil and it did real fine.. Iused cone bottom tanks, Kept records of my biodiesel, Great on my MB 240D 33MPG, no soot, no smoke. still slow but had a power pulling. I would have continued if the price went beyond $5.00 a gallon. I like coconut oil because of Kinetic Viscosity of 1.9 at 60degC, Iodine number kept low, other characteristics. Catalist of KOH at 7.8Grams per liter of absolute alcoholI prefer Absolute Alchol (Ethanol) for ease of separation and safety.
Great video, Thanks for sharing! Very good narration and content delivery.
So much respect to you man. That is how I would like to make use of things too. 👍🏽
That's so clean a modern car would drive with it. In Germany, farmers use old motor oil. Simply filtered through a towel. Mixed with 50% diesel in winter. Sometimes black clouds but it works very well.
Truckers too
Hello, this method works on 2007 cars, I have a 2007 ford fusion and can you give me more details about this method
I love this video I'm all about poor man's way you don't need fancy machines at all and you get the same results 😁👍👍👌
Wonderful! I really love the smart use of things you already have. The result looks even better than homemade beer :)
Very simple and informative thank you. I wrote this in a notebook for the future. Being dependant on the gas companies is not a good thing especially as they keep raising prices to oppress the people.
3:48 I like the flip-flops as safety equipment!
Then if something splashes on you, you don't even need to take them off to wash off the feet.
They're not flip-flops. They are safety sandals.
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Just some advice, you could cut your methanol usage in your reaction, my standard reaction is 80litres of veg oil at a time and 12 litres of methanol, which is obviously only 1.5l per 10l - I know it will only save your 500ml but it is a saving. It will also ensure there is no free methanol left after the reaction. You can still use your 5 grams of NaOH per litre of biodiesel (or 50 grams per 10 litres).
2l of etanol is more expensive then 10 l diesel
@@cristianca889 He is using methanol. Depends where you are, methanol (and ethanol for that matter) is cheaper that diesel in most countries. I can buy 2 litres of methanol for same price as 1 litre of diesel.
Simple, clear, straight forward... no "Mystery" left over, Well Done!
Thank you this is the best video I have found so far on biodiesel Fuel and how to make it
Thank you for making this video. Question about what to do with the residue glycerine eventually?
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You could use it as a plasticiser. And there are many other uses also.
I read in the comments that he composts it. It can be used to make soap but he finds it too much work.
Did you try to burn the leftover oil directly in the diesel engine, without the esterification? Of course, after proper filtration and cleaning and pre-heating of the oil.
I used to fuel my old diesel with vegetable oils with a small add of normal diesel fuel for a better viscosity of the mixture. It worked out fine because the old engine could handle such fuel.
Most veg oil are costlier than diesel
@@balasubramaniansambasivam2218 not in the UK the fuel tax is incredible!
Great video man, thanks for the great explanation.
I've subscribed straight away as I feel you have so much to teach me :)
Greetings and Love from England
Excellent video tutorial on home made biodiesel 👍
⛽👍 Thanks for sharing!
What happens to the "grease-o-line" (dark sludge) when finished?
Can you use this bio-diesel in motorbikes?
It can be used in diesel engines and not in petrol engines..
Maybe to keep wood from rotting or soak the sludge into pathways to keep weeds AND grass from growing. ??
There is no such thing like grease O line its called glycerine and is a buy product, because plant fats are glycerine fatty acid esters. Glycerine is not usable when it's that dirty... Normally it's a colorless clear sweet tasting and very thick liquid...
He replied to others that there is a way to make soap out of it, but not easily. So he puts it in the compost pile, it breaks down. Now that's interesting...
@@alancadieux2984 no you can't make soap from glycerine. Glycerine is a by product from soap production.
Very interesting. I'm sure biofuels are a more practical solution to vehicles of the future than electric cars.
@@elgur4512 I wasn't making the suggestion from any particularly scientific point of view, but seems to me that the infrastructure for supporting electric cars isn't really in place and they don't have particularly good range or performance.
Liquid fuelled cars are tried and tested technology on the other hand, and I think the transition from petrofuels to biofuels would be easier than petrofuels to electric.
@@elgur4512 It's the burning of fossil fuels _specifically_ that's the major environmental concern...the amount of CO2 produced by biofuels will be in a dynamic equilibrium with the plant matter they're derived from (no additional CO2 will be added to the Earth's atmosphere).
Personally, I'd like the infrastructure to be in place _before_ I switch to an electric car, rather than having some vague promise about it happening at some time in the future.
The very infrastructure itself may have problems. The overwhelming bulk of the world's electricity is still generated from fossil fuels, and this really isn't going to change any time soon whilst developing industrial superpowers like China and India are far more concerned with their economies than the environment.
The quest for ever increasing quantities of lithium for the batteries of electric cars is itself going to cause major environmental problems.
Like you said: we'll see...
What a great instructional video, ...thank you for sharing your knowledge...!
very good. would love to hear from you and others doing these kinds of self sustainable like this
Thank you i can walk though the chips kiosk to ollet the used cooking oil i have my disel engine for maize mill
How economical it is, as compared to commercial diesel?
What is use of the sludge or what you pronounced as "greasoline" or glycerine??
Glycerine can be used to make soap
@@shanainemosende1574
Thanks for your time to answer.
Glycerin can be used as a plasticiser and many other things.
Thank you for a thorough presentation.
Truly impressive ! without degree s in chemistry or chemical engineering this BRILLIANT man has developed a simple , cheap yet quality product . We need to recruit him into military intelligence, as this guy can figure out how to "get her done ! " . My hat it tipped to you Sir :)
Very inspiring, new subscriber here 🙏
"greasaline" love how he pronounces glycerin :) Other then that, great video, love the tutorial!
that and i think greasealine is more better sounding then calling it bio diesel. cuz thats what it is. greasealine lol
Nice video. It’s nice to see the community working together
This is the best video on how to make biodiesel that I've seen this is the way that anybody can do it they try to make it complicated on the other videos thanks for the share
Jon you are amazing, when you learn how to create hydrogen and oxygen from water you can add (as engine is running) and reduce the amount of diesel used in the engine as well. You will need some scrap stainless steel to begin and an energy source - electricity.
HHO seems useful for some stuff, but more dangerous for other stuff. I personally wouldn't put a tank of it in a car, but that's just me - although i'd hope the people driving around me would think the same.
Isn't the water quite toxic after using stainless electrodes? Would some kind of carbon electrode be better? An endless supply of electrodes that you can make yourself would be great!
@@Kyle-sg4rm carbon rods out of batteries would do but less efficient. I've been playing with aluminum water a acid the acid removes the oxide layer and allows the water to react with the aluminum. Hho
@@patrickweir9666 I was thinking Aluminium, but then thought about the oxide and lower conductivity. But you may have a way around that! Would household vinegar (5%), or cleaning vinegar (10%) be strong enough? Acetic acid + Aluminium oxide in electrolysis = Aluminium acetate?
@@patrickweir9666 Aluminium could potentially be extracted from certain plant ashes - Sorghum and other grasses are good candidates. So Aluminium electrodes could potentially be sustainable in the middle of nowhere - which is important to me and some other people.
What do you do with the thick oil that comes out from the first reaction?
THey use it as LUBE, dats why day have so many kids!
It's very dirty glycerine. Glycerine is an alcohol. Plant fats are esters, meaning they have an alcohol and an organic acid chemically bound by an ester group...
Yeah, I have made it like that in a lab when I was first learning out. There are processes to make it go faster but as Jon said, they don't have access to it. So, this way works and that's what they use.
Excellent, clear description. Well done!
This is no longer viable in the UK as chip shops soon cottoned on to it, and began charging more for the old oil. At best it costs around £1 - £1.30 per litre to make now, as opposed to several years ago when it cost a mere 40p to make.
I have about 250litres of veg oil at the moment and cant get anyone to take it away for free.
Diesels run like a dream on clear coconut oil
1.5 million tons of Fatty Acid Methyl Ester annually to Germany from the Philippines is a big slice off Germany's share of Petro diesel. Not counting the cocodiesel used by Philippine Government's vehicles.
Thankyou for this. You have helped me tremendously.
I think the key factor here from an economic stand point is to use "USED" cooking oil. At least around here, even the cheapest cooking oil costs about $8/gallon in bulk, while regular diesel is about $4/gal. But this is about the best use of used cooking oil other then burning it straight in a furnace. You can probably sell the glycerin by product as well.
they can burn the glycerin byproduct as heating fuel too.
There in Peru we'd take the truck and exchange buckets with the restaurants. They'd fill them and we'd give them an empty bucket. That would then get dumped into a 500-gallon tank through a filter screen and the process would begin. We had a complicated setup and the piping looked like a nightmare until you got used to it. But the same pump would move the product around through its paces.
@@justincase5228 would you be able to create a video and show us ?
Can we use oil which is used more than once or twice.
How much bio diesel we get after all processing from 10 ltrs of oil ??
Plz also tell how to separate the water.
Thanks
We can use old oil which is used more than 2 times. We will get a little less than 10 liters .It's depend on the quality of oil too. How to separate water from oil is quite easy because oil is lighter than water . They will be separated then we suck it out from the top or drain the water out from the bottom.
@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy thanks for replying
Great educational video. Very good explanation. Thank you.
Thank you sir, for your informative video. You are a great service to many people.
When you boil the oil initially, cover the container airtight, with a hose coming out of the top. Then bubble the fumes from the hose through water to refine the oil. Clean oil will collect on the surface of the water. You can repeat the process many times to refine the oil to useable bio-fuel. It is called distillation. You can distil waste plastic back to oil in exactly the same way. 1 kg of plastic = 1 kg of useable oil which can be refined to gasoline.
Now this sounds pretty interesting idea, since there is multitude of plastics around and if i can turn them into fuel... mmmh possibilities of circumventing fuel tax.... I need to research this further.
This is so amazing, sir. I love to learn more from your youtube channel. Are you a lecturer or professor from any university?
I'm a farmer. I didn't finish university.
@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy This is so amazing, sir. I could learn, I mean any ordinary man could learn anything in this world. It is so inspirational by looking at you at this age with full of drive to learn more and would still wanna do something for people, community and environment. Thanks a lot, sir. I am looking forward to seeing more videos in future too. Keep up the good work.
@@JonJandaiLifeisEasy Just a farmer, but making your own fuel, and finding a way to use one thing for so much proves you superior to most who did. They waste everything.. They make things disposable, and then they blame the rest of the population. Thank you for being who you are. - USA
Thanks a lot for the concept!
This is so awesome and informative. Thank you for posting.
Bio diesel is an excellent diesel engine fuel, it is cleaner than petroleum based diesel fuel. Longer engine life.
excuse me, petroleum diesel or biodiesel, doesnt the exhaust of the engine is still black and sooty??
@@oswaldoriginal7587 It is the biodiesel that sigificantly reduce the unwanted smoke or unburned fuel. Less to no smoke is cleaner engine, less wear. Should we need to reduce air pollution from combustion engines, it is the plant base oil or fuel that can help the existing petroleum oil and fuel perform better and as an effect, longer engine life. Petroleum companies are aware of this but they do not want you to know about it.
@@unliyou Lucky its only the waste cooking oil. What if we plant more oil palms in order to produce diesel? Other scientist say, nearly all the remaining jungles on earth will have to be chop to be oil palm plantation to get that amount burnt by humans
The methanol and sodium hydroxide must be cheap there.
Methyl Alcohol or Methalated Spirits also known as Denatured Alcohol
Sodium Hydroxide in America its Caled Lye used as a drain cleaner usually in crystal form not the liquid type it has around 30% Lye.
@@yfelwulf Denatured alcohol is ethyl alcohol with something nasty added like methyl alcohol so people don't drink it here.
Sodium hydroxide is cheap for the amount used. I buy it to make soap.
@@lightdark00 The question asked is what is it it goes by various names depending on country Methylated Spirit in Australia, Denatured alcohol in the US its technical name is Ethyl Alcohol.
That is brilliant! Well done!