Very cool. This video might not have millions of views, but this kind of small local production tech is going to be the powerhouse of the future. Not needing to buy fuel shipped from across the world is priceless.
"Powerhouse of the future" not so much. Pretty much the 3 quarters of all american farmlands would need to be covered in agriculture for biodiesel just to feed all our cars. Would you be willing to eat 4 times less just to be able to run your car? Sorry bud, electric is the way to go. Not to say that this has no future though, you could make biofuels from agricultural waste and use it to generate greener energy or to supply electricity when solar and wind can't produce it, but the waste alone won't be enough to power the cars directly.
In the video, they use waste oils, instead of rich and fresh oils. Instead of focusing our capacity on just one thing, be it waste or new, we need to focus on both, because the food waste problem is a real thing. Also what happened to the solar panels that were in California? Oh right! I remember, *they were classified as toxic waste and they needed special procedures to contain it.* now multiply that by a billion and see how bad it gets.
@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 You want to know what else is "toxic waste" that must be "specially treated"? Uncontroled algae growth due to nitrogen fertilizer pollution that comes from heavy monoculture farming, especially in the farming of biofuels. Solar panels on the other hand are solid state waste, meaning they don't even contaminate water, they are made of 90% glass that isn't even harmful to the environment, are over 96% recyclable, and their lifespan is 25+ years. So basically after 100 years of use and recycling of solar panels you get only about 10% of the initial product as actual waste that you can easily burry without much trouble. Did I also mention solar energy costs only 40 dollars per MWh? Which is 4 times cheaper than biofuel? So I don't see point. Solar beats biofuel in almost every way. How can you not see it? Then again, not to say biofuels don't have a future, they do, and they can solve many problems short and medium term. But long term, renewables are the way to go, like it or not.
@@texanplayer7651 nature has a way of taking care of that as well, the more algae, the more fish. That is how population increases, is because there is more resources for them. Show me that an excess of nitrogen kills of fish in the water. People are brewing biofuel for their own cars, just they don't want to post that stuff online or they don't have the time to, that's ok. In fact, biofuel has the potential to reduce, or even eliminate the food waste issue that is relevant around the world. The amount of energy that is being wasted throwing that other half of the sandwich away instead of putting it somewhere where someone can make use of your waste and to generate the fuel that your car runs on is a pretty neat concept, and its a useful one as well. Solar efficiency can get up to 70% thermal efficiency, but how much loss is there going through the wires, and then having it downscaled to 12 volts for your computer to use? Not to mention, the word "can" in this instance implies that there is the possibility, you have to factor in the other elements, such as solar panels do not run 24/7, meaning that the panels have to generate more power to either charge a battery that holds the energy for later use, which would add a couple ten thousand dollars on to you system and another piece that you can expect to go wrong if you live in a cold environment, like I do. Where I am at, the winter is very much bipolar, one hour it can be calm and sunny, and then 30 minutes passed by and a full on snowstorm comes in and dumps 15 inches of snow. Including the fact that night temperatures can get pretty low, even one time, we were at -22 Fahrenheit, which is super harsh conditions for a battery. And even yesterday, I have a diesel car, and when I got into the car, I had to wait for 14 sluggish seconds for the car to run on its own steam. Not to mention as soon as I got it back the day before, the battery was almost dead and failed to crank the car over. Batteries would be a weak spot in that other period of 7-13 hours without sunlight. If you wanted it to run normally, you would have to figure out a place to install it other than your garage, that is climate controlled- and that does not take up a bunch of space in your house, especially is you have 7 people living in said house. Solar is fine, but it is not necessarily a way to go. And you mentioned the price of the solar panel system, and it is more expensive if I were to keep on using natural gas as fuel. Quote, "With a typical 6 kW system costing an average of $17,700 before incentives, they are a home improvement that requires a significant financial investment." from an article on the price of solar panels as of September 22, 2022. www.solarreviews.com/blog/why-are-solar-panels-so-expensive , there is the article if you want to take a look over there. If you do not wish to install a battery, that would still lead you to use electricity from the grid, which defeats the purpose if I were to get my own solar panels. For biodiesel, on the other hand, is quite significantly cheap to produce. From utahbiodieselsupply.com, they found that the average cost of biodiesel, per gallon, is "...$0.75/gal up to $1.25/gallon depending on what our methanol costs are." www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/blog/calculating-cost-per-gallon-of-biodiesel/ , again, the short article if you would like to take a look at it. So biodiesel is a very affordable option if you want to generate your own fuel, I think the issue is that the industry has been so focused around you paying them for the fuels, and they see that going away from them, and they try to keep it like that, that I why I think biodiesel has a semi-unfair advantage going for it.
While we don't know the exact costs, the University of Idaho Vandal Clean Energy Club built a biodiesel fueling station (one pump, one tank) this year for just under $2,000 USD. The tank itself was donated. www.uidaho.edu/current-students/sustainability-center/student-grants/current-grants.
What vehicles have you used this fuel in? Have you used in any diesel generators? And how much does it cost per gallon to make biodiesel is using used vegetable oil?
Great question-we use too many vehicles to count, from lawn-mowers and skid steers to semi trucks and front end loaders and everything in between.Currently we are using it in a shop heater that specifically says "no biodiesel" with no issues. If you're able to collect the waste oil for free, most of the costs are in the alcohol. The alcohol can be expensive, depending on where you live. Our fuel costs less than $2/gal to make.
@@tatethompson2648 Any used diesel vehicle can be very affordable and work perfectly with biodiesel. We love our 2001 VW TDI Beetle, 1999 Dodge Ram 2500, and our 1992 Dodge Ram D250.
@@johnsailor6081 For sure, but sulphur is far from the only pollutant to be considered. It would seem that consideration should be given to all of the energy inputs required to grow crops/raise livestock (tallow) as well as the energy mix used to produce the electricity involved in all of these biodiesel production processes. Besides, modern diesel engines run on ULSD which contains a negligible amount of sulphur, and the remaining sulphur is treated with exhaust aftertreatment systems, so the impact on our air quality is approaching zero.
@@andrewwolitzki7799 oh for sure when looking at the large scale picture it’s a different ballgame. I was just examining the difference in emissions from individual combustion not alll the factors in mass scale production
@@BiodieselEducation FPPF Killem is a highly effective, highly toxic chemical. 16 oz. treats 1920 gallons. Doesn't the addition of a biocide immediately eliminate the biodegradable environmentally-friendly claims associated with using biodiesel? Biocides are incredibly toxic chemicals designed to kill bacteria.
Are the emissions cleaner than petrodiesel or is it in production & refinement that the greenhouse gases are saved/reduced? Also would it be feasible for a farmer to produce enough to run a farm without giving up too much land to fuel production? Is there a ratio you guys have came up with as far as arable land vs fuel production land? Cool stuff is everything works out without making people starve for fuel production. I don't mean to be negative, the earth could do good ideas right now! Oh also does it have to be mixed with petrodiesel? Cheers
@@sking2173 And yet, we acknowledge that there are some industrial processes which are more efficient than others. Curious to know if the biodiesel production process actually provides net benefit to the planet, or if it is just another fun 'feel-good' story. Planting trees seems way easier than all of this. Yay for carbon-sinks.
That’s what I was thinking too, just plant more trees and try en we don’t have to spend trillions upon trillions of dollars for a platform that isn’t as reliable as our current one.
I don't understand why they need to wash the oil with water? Then you get water, mixed with the biodiesel? i think that is not good for the engine or is that not true?
Yes, but it is much more difficult to achieve the phase separation between the fuel and glycerol byproduct. If you want to use less polar alcohols than methanol (like ethanol), then the reaction must be anhydrous. The water tolerance of ethanol-based biodiesel was the topic of my first chemistry research project
How about using Industrial Hemp? Biodiesel comes from seeds, ethanol or other products from the stem, and fertilizer from the leaves. Grows fast, rugged and can crossbred for maximum seeds yield. Have you guys ever thought about using Industrial Hemp for research?
Transesterification is easier with methanol than ethanol, but both should work. (ethanol might be slower and require a stronger catalyst; potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide) If you use E85 gasoline for the ethanol source and KOH for the catalyst, will the small amount of gasoline that makes it into the end product hurt anything? The reason I ask is E85 is ubiquitous, but methanol is hard to find and expensive in small quantities. Even with the tax, E85 is usually cheaper. I vaguely recall that there's another 2-step process that uses sulfuric acid for the majority of the esterification. I can't remember how that works, but it might be better for waste oil that contains a lot of FFA.
The acid-catalysis process is usually something you will use when you're working with a waste oil stream as it is more compatible with high FFA content. It's slower, but more efficient than base catalysis as you don't need to neutralize the acid content of the feedstock before the reaction can proceed. Virgin oils are more optimally processed using base-catalysis process as described in the video.
Awesome video! To save me from going through all your literature, is there a specific reason you use methanol over ethanol? I feel like ethanol might be a little cheaper to obtain?
Ethanol will cause your fuel to congeal at colder temperatures and will be more stable (ie not as reactive = potential misfires at low temp).. that being said that is the gist of what I’ve read
I work at a biodiesel facility that is capable of producing up to 120m3 of pure biodiesel. Methonal is the most effective catalyst to help in the removal of free fatty acids. Also we use distillation towers to remove the excess methanol. Apparently we produce the most pure form of biodiesel in Canada. It’s a multiple step process though
@taylorbroderson7426 I'm working at a biodiesel startup in another country.. been 4 months and we have so many problems. Our final biodiesel is too high in FA.. what is your % Fatty Acids going in to the final distillation process? 🤔
@@BiodieselEducation What is it about KOH that makes it an ideal catalyst in this process? Also, what was your yield from raw materials to finished product?
It depends on how you do the math. Theoretically since biodiesel is derived from plants it should be carbon-negative, but with all the additives and work going into it I don't know. Currently sugar cane ethanol is the only one I know that is carbon negative, but it'll take about 20 years for it to offset the carbon that was emitted deforesting the fields to produce it in the first place.
@@ghislainmcgraw1775 Yes, it would certainly be interesting to see the calculus on typical oil extraction and refinery processes vs. intensive agriculture & tallow collection and filtration + methanol production --> biodiesel production, as well as the energy associated with transporting and blending this biodiesel into petroleum diesel. I wonder if biodiesel production still outweighs petroleum-based diesel fuel after all this is considered.
We have a biodiesel chemistry curriculum on our website that may be helpful here: biodieseleducation.org/Education/BiodieselChemistry.html, and a page of resources of those interested in a biodiesel small business here: biodieseleducation.org/Production/BiodieselSmallBusiness.html
It's interesting they use used vegetable oil, because in videos I've seen they just use used vegetable oil and muslin, and that's all it takes to run on a diesel engine. Burning a bit cleaner, and I think more mileage per volume.
Diesel engines burn clean already, way better than gasoline that it. Under normal usage, zero of the fuel escapes unburnt and it results in a clean burn almost every single time. The only way soot is produced is when the engine is under heavy load, not enough air or too much fuel. That even then can be corrected by properly dialing in the tuning of your diesel. And just recently, diesel got a retrofit program that can make it run off of 90 hydrogen, some kits generate it on board and some have a separate tank, it also increases thermodynamic efficiency by 26.2% from 40%. That equates it to be 66.2% thermodynamically efficient. Making it a viable option in the future, not to mention, economists are expecting a lithium shortage in the coming years, and this is the diesel retrofit, along with Hydrogens time to shine.
Add 1 gallon for premium gasoline to 30 gallons of diesel. To increase the Octane and flow ability of your fuel! I have a 1998 12 valve Dodge Diesel! With 500,000 km. I’ve been doing this from when I bought the truck new😊
Yes it will, I am not sure if the smell will be as strong as burning pure veg oil but I do know that there is that french fry smell to it. This process is mostly just to thin out the oil and remove the hard to burn parts.
Still vegetable oil. Peanuts (my kryptonite) are considered a legume, which is a vegetable. This therefore it’s simply called vegetable oil for simplification.
Ok the myth of the diesel engine was made to run on vegetable oil . What happened when he was showing it to a investor someone asked if they can run on peanut oil and he said why not .
Actually this is a side-effect that is a really good thing! High-quality biodiesel is actually a pretty decent-ish solvent which is good at cleaning, way better at cleaning than petroleum-diesel. So what happens is that once you add pure biodiesel into a USED diesel vehicle that used to run on petroleum-diesel, it will clean the tank and all the impurities end up clogging the fuel filter. You may have to change the fuel filter if this happens and if the tank and lines are really dirty then you may even have to change your filter twice. After that, you wont have any issues with clogged filters.
@@Youdontknow591 Biodiesel attracts and retains water. Water retention results in the perfect breeding ground for bacteria. This bacteria eats hydrocarbons and excretes acid. This acid eats away at storage tanks, producing sludge. The resulting bacteria colonies form slime mats of their own, clogging filters. You are referring to the solvent quality of biodiesels. Great. So now we have dislodged particles that had previously been clinging to my fuel tank's wall, and they are heading downstream to clog my filters. What a disaster.
You know, technically you are required by law to call whatever taxation office or council you have in your area and let them know just so you can pay taxes on making your own fuel.............................I wonder how much people are actually doing that.....I hope not alot. Its BS.
You're exhaust will still have that smell with biodiesel. Filtered oil will work technically but there some issues that may cause damage overtime but it largely depends. If you only filter the oil, the oil's PH is unchanged and you could be adding acidic oil to your car which may corrode things quicker. The thicker viscosity although its really good for lubricating the engine, it also make it difficult on your fuel pump (leading to more wear unless you have a strong pump) and your fuel injectors since they are unable to atomize such a thick fluid leading to an inefficient and unclean burn. Also veg oils gel up and thicken in cold weather much easier and are harder to cold start. Personally, I would only use filtered oil as a fuel if I were to install a second tank in my vehicle just for the oil, but to each their own.
Gosh this diesel must be crap... The car is driving so slowly! I think the real Diesel from crude offers better perfomance, even the VW Beetle can make 100mph!
Not sure if your joking but thats not true! In the studies that I have read, the worst results they were able to collect if we are purely only talking about energy is that biodiesel has about 5% to 6% less energy which is virtually unnoticeable, adding to that, if you make biodiesel from waste oils, it will be a fraction of the cost of petroleum-diesel and will be kinder to your engine.
Very cool. This video might not have millions of views, but this kind of small local production tech is going to be the powerhouse of the future. Not needing to buy fuel shipped from across the world is priceless.
"Powerhouse of the future" not so much. Pretty much the 3 quarters of all american farmlands would need to be covered in agriculture for biodiesel just to feed all our cars. Would you be willing to eat 4 times less just to be able to run your car?
Sorry bud, electric is the way to go.
Not to say that this has no future though, you could make biofuels from agricultural waste and use it to generate greener energy or to supply electricity when solar and wind can't produce it, but the waste alone won't be enough to power the cars directly.
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In the video, they use waste oils, instead of rich and fresh oils. Instead of focusing our capacity on just one thing, be it waste or new, we need to focus on both, because the food waste problem is a real thing.
Also what happened to the solar panels that were in California? Oh right! I remember, *they were classified as toxic waste and they needed special procedures to contain it.* now multiply that by a billion and see how bad it gets.
@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469
You want to know what else is "toxic waste" that must be "specially treated"? Uncontroled algae growth due to nitrogen fertilizer pollution that comes from heavy monoculture farming, especially in the farming of biofuels.
Solar panels on the other hand are solid state waste, meaning they don't even contaminate water, they are made of 90% glass that isn't even harmful to the environment, are over 96% recyclable, and their lifespan is 25+ years. So basically after 100 years of use and recycling of solar panels you get only about 10% of the initial product as actual waste that you can easily burry without much trouble.
Did I also mention solar energy costs only 40 dollars per MWh? Which is 4 times cheaper than biofuel?
So I don't see point. Solar beats biofuel in almost every way. How can you not see it?
Then again, not to say biofuels don't have a future, they do, and they can solve many problems short and medium term. But long term, renewables are the way to go, like it or not.
@@texanplayer7651 nature has a way of taking care of that as well, the more algae, the more fish. That is how population increases, is because there is more resources for them. Show me that an excess of nitrogen kills of fish in the water.
People are brewing biofuel for their own cars, just they don't want to post that stuff online or they don't have the time to, that's ok. In fact, biofuel has the potential to reduce, or even eliminate the food waste issue that is relevant around the world. The amount of energy that is being wasted throwing that other half of the sandwich away instead of putting it somewhere where someone can make use of your waste and to generate the fuel that your car runs on is a pretty neat concept, and its a useful one as well.
Solar efficiency can get up to 70% thermal efficiency, but how much loss is there going through the wires, and then having it downscaled to 12 volts for your computer to use? Not to mention, the word "can" in this instance implies that there is the possibility, you have to factor in the other elements, such as solar panels do not run 24/7, meaning that the panels have to generate more power to either charge a battery that holds the energy for later use, which would add a couple ten thousand dollars on to you system and another piece that you can expect to go wrong if you live in a cold environment, like I do. Where I am at, the winter is very much bipolar, one hour it can be calm and sunny, and then 30 minutes passed by and a full on snowstorm comes in and dumps 15 inches of snow. Including the fact that night temperatures can get pretty low, even one time, we were at -22 Fahrenheit, which is super harsh conditions for a battery. And even yesterday, I have a diesel car, and when I got into the car, I had to wait for 14 sluggish seconds for the car to run on its own steam. Not to mention as soon as I got it back the day before, the battery was almost dead and failed to crank the car over. Batteries would be a weak spot in that other period of 7-13 hours without sunlight. If you wanted it to run normally, you would have to figure out a place to install it other than your garage, that is climate controlled- and that does not take up a bunch of space in your house, especially is you have 7 people living in said house. Solar is fine, but it is not necessarily a way to go.
And you mentioned the price of the solar panel system, and it is more expensive if I were to keep on using natural gas as fuel. Quote, "With a typical 6 kW system costing an average of $17,700 before incentives, they are a home improvement that requires a significant financial investment." from an article on the price of solar panels as of September 22, 2022. www.solarreviews.com/blog/why-are-solar-panels-so-expensive , there is the article if you want to take a look over there. If you do not wish to install a battery, that would still lead you to use electricity from the grid, which defeats the purpose if I were to get my own solar panels.
For biodiesel, on the other hand, is quite significantly cheap to produce. From utahbiodieselsupply.com, they found that the average cost of biodiesel, per gallon, is "...$0.75/gal up to $1.25/gallon depending on what our methanol costs are." www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/blog/calculating-cost-per-gallon-of-biodiesel/ , again, the short article if you would like to take a look at it.
So biodiesel is a very affordable option if you want to generate your own fuel, I think the issue is that the industry has been so focused around you paying them for the fuels, and they see that going away from them, and they try to keep it like that, that I why I think biodiesel has a semi-unfair advantage going for it.
As someone who is about to make biodiesel at home, this is an incredible resource
Mathanol is highly corrosive not necessarily toxic.. But it burns with invisable flame which is dangerous... excellent demo.. and shop
Methanol is extremely toxic
It’s very toxic. It can make you go blind if ingested
Can I ask what type of biocide is used? I'm curious what chemical would be used to inhibit bacterial growth in this biodiesel. Thank you!
Please can i know, for my city to open a biodiesel filling station ( Dar es salaam, Tanzania ) how much will it cost as
While we don't know the exact costs, the University of Idaho Vandal Clean Energy Club built a biodiesel fueling station (one pump, one tank) this year for just under $2,000 USD. The tank itself was donated. www.uidaho.edu/current-students/sustainability-center/student-grants/current-grants.
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The white coats do they make the process more scientific?
They are for safety reasons
yes
@@pulkitsharmapremiumvideos9252 How so?
@@zigmasj6572 they are protected from any spills
@@pulkitsharmapremiumvideos9252 Protected as in they have a hydrophobic coating, or is it just easier to spot any spills on white?
Kindly tell me how can make drying for Biodiesel after washing it by water?
How much diesel was used in the planting, harvest, transport of base ingredients?
What vehicles have you used this fuel in? Have you used in any diesel generators? And how much does it cost per gallon to make biodiesel is using used vegetable oil?
Great question-we use too many vehicles to count, from lawn-mowers and skid steers to semi trucks and front end loaders and everything in between.Currently we are using it in a shop heater that specifically says "no biodiesel" with no issues. If you're able to collect the waste oil for free, most of the costs are in the alcohol. The alcohol can be expensive, depending on where you live. Our fuel costs less than $2/gal to make.
@@BiodieselEducation I don't understand why more people don't make their own fuel. Even for generating electricity
What decent priced vehicles are good starting points?
@@tatethompson2648 Any used diesel vehicle can be very affordable and work perfectly with biodiesel. We love our 2001 VW TDI Beetle, 1999 Dodge Ram 2500, and our 1992 Dodge Ram D250.
@@BiodieselEducation can it run a 2012 ford transit 2.2 tdi common rail diesel engine without issues?
Question. Wha's the polution ratio compared to petrol diesel? Small or big difference?
presumably it should be considerably less, as there is almost no sulfur present in any of the reactants
@@johnsailor6081 For sure, but sulphur is far from the only pollutant to be considered.
It would seem that consideration should be given to all of the energy inputs required to grow crops/raise livestock (tallow) as well as the energy mix used to produce the electricity involved in all of these biodiesel production processes.
Besides, modern diesel engines run on ULSD which contains a negligible amount of sulphur, and the remaining sulphur is treated with exhaust aftertreatment systems, so the impact on our air quality is approaching zero.
@@andrewwolitzki7799 oh for sure when looking at the large scale picture it’s a different ballgame. I was just examining the difference in emissions from individual combustion not alll the factors in mass scale production
@@johnsailor6081 Understood!
What do you do with the wash water
what is the name of anti oxidant and biocide you use to add in biodiesel????
We don't promote any brand, but we are currently using Ethanox 4760R antioxidant and FPPF KILLEM Biocide.
@@BiodieselEducation FPPF Killem is a highly effective, highly toxic chemical. 16 oz. treats 1920 gallons. Doesn't the addition of a biocide immediately eliminate the biodegradable environmentally-friendly claims associated with using biodiesel?
Biocides are incredibly toxic chemicals designed to kill bacteria.
Are the emissions cleaner than petrodiesel or is it in production & refinement that the greenhouse gases are saved/reduced? Also would it be feasible for a farmer to produce enough to run a farm without giving up too much land to fuel production? Is there a ratio you guys have came up with as far as arable land vs fuel production land? Cool stuff is everything works out without making people starve for fuel production. I don't mean to be negative, the earth could do good ideas right now! Oh also does it have to be mixed with petrodiesel? Cheers
Just as your CO2 emissions as a human are a part of the carbon cycle, so too is the burning of biodiesel. The scientists call it carbon-neutral.
@@sking2173 And yet, we acknowledge that there are some industrial processes which are more efficient than others. Curious to know if the biodiesel production process actually provides net benefit to the planet, or if it is just another fun 'feel-good' story.
Planting trees seems way easier than all of this. Yay for carbon-sinks.
That’s what I was thinking too, just plant more trees and try en we don’t have to spend trillions upon trillions of dollars for a platform that isn’t as reliable as our current one.
@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 you can plant more tree, that yield more oil mate..
Win win..
What kind of yield percentage can you expect for each batch?
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I made it yesterday in my school lab and we used 100ml sunflower oil and got 50 ml of biodiesel
I hear the alcohol is very expensive is it true @zaddyzen5824
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I don't understand why they need to wash the oil with water? Then you get water, mixed with the biodiesel? i think that is not good for the engine or is that not true?
Can I make biodisel with fruit seeds?
can i use ethanol instead of mythanol?
Yes, but it is much more difficult to achieve the phase separation between the fuel and glycerol byproduct. If you want to use less polar alcohols than methanol (like ethanol), then the reaction must be anhydrous. The water tolerance of ethanol-based biodiesel was the topic of my first chemistry research project
How about using Industrial Hemp? Biodiesel comes from seeds, ethanol or other products from the stem, and fertilizer from the leaves.
Grows fast, rugged and can crossbred for maximum seeds yield.
Have you guys ever thought about using Industrial Hemp for research?
That would be one good use for weed for one single time lol. Idk what the emissions would produce though.
where does the waste go?
@Biodiesel Education Can I use palm oil in place of the vegetable oil?
In theory, any oil should work, be it waste oil or brand new oil.
Sir how it is good or bad sir because we have the biodiesel pump now sooo ..sir please reply sir because somebody is telling it's not good sir
Transesterification is easier with methanol than ethanol, but both should work. (ethanol might be slower and require a stronger catalyst; potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide) If you use E85 gasoline for the ethanol source and KOH for the catalyst, will the small amount of gasoline that makes it into the end product hurt anything? The reason I ask is E85 is ubiquitous, but methanol is hard to find and expensive in small quantities. Even with the tax, E85 is usually cheaper.
I vaguely recall that there's another 2-step process that uses sulfuric acid for the majority of the esterification. I can't remember how that works, but it might be better for waste oil that contains a lot of FFA.
The acid-catalysis process is usually something you will use when you're working with a waste oil stream as it is more compatible with high FFA content. It's slower, but more efficient than base catalysis as you don't need to neutralize the acid content of the feedstock before the reaction can proceed. Virgin oils are more optimally processed using base-catalysis process as described in the video.
"Vegetable oil" = hemp oil. The first deisel engines ran on hemp oil.
peanut oil but close enough
Awesome video! To save me from going through all your literature, is there a specific reason you use methanol over ethanol? I feel like ethanol might be a little cheaper to obtain?
Ethanol will cause your fuel to congeal at colder temperatures and will be more stable (ie not as reactive = potential misfires at low temp).. that being said that is the gist of what I’ve read
shorter chain alcohols have lower steric hindrance so they generally produce more yield im pretty sure
I work at a biodiesel facility that is capable of producing up to 120m3 of pure biodiesel. Methonal is the most effective catalyst to help in the removal of free fatty acids. Also we use distillation towers to remove the excess methanol. Apparently we produce the most pure form of biodiesel in Canada. It’s a multiple step process though
@taylorbroderson7426 I'm working at a biodiesel startup in another country.. been 4 months and we have so many problems. Our final biodiesel is too high in FA.. what is your % Fatty Acids going in to the final distillation process? 🤔
My truck loves biodiesel, it's fuckin' awesome
great video! how can I get more info on how to build a biodiesel lab? do you have plans? thanks!
Can we connect over ? I am a researcher on biodiesel and have some really great plans for the sustainable future.
My man!
Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco
In 6:1 ratio , 6 part is methanol or 6 part oil
Oil
@@HomeDefence you’re wrong
It’s a 6:1 molar ratio, meaning for every mole of oil, there is 6 moles of methanol reacting with it
Edit: spelling
@@aimzf20 lol you obviously dont understand the reaction
How long to dry the Biodiesel and at what temperature?
It’s a liquid fuel
All moisture flashes off at full vacuum either flash still or final distillation.
I look this is great! can i use this video to reupload and remake for the educational content?
What is a typical catalyst that is used in the chemical process
Right now we are using potassium hydroxide! (KOH)
@@BiodieselEducation thank you!
@@BiodieselEducation What is it about KOH that makes it an ideal catalyst in this process? Also, what was your yield from raw materials to finished product?
how much affect does using biodiesel have on the environment? is it like normal diesel or does it have more or less greenhouse gas affect?
It depends on how you do the math. Theoretically since biodiesel is derived from plants it should be carbon-negative, but with all the additives and work going into it I don't know.
Currently sugar cane ethanol is the only one I know that is carbon negative, but it'll take about 20 years for it to offset the carbon that was emitted deforesting the fields to produce it in the first place.
@@ghislainmcgraw1775 Yes, it would certainly be interesting to see the calculus on typical oil extraction and refinery processes vs. intensive agriculture & tallow collection and filtration + methanol production --> biodiesel production, as well as the energy associated with transporting and blending this biodiesel into petroleum diesel. I wonder if biodiesel production still outweighs petroleum-based diesel fuel after all this is considered.
Is this biodiesel plant profitable?
Svp j'ai besoin d'un mémoires sur valorisation d'une huile végétale usagée en biodiesel en français merci
Sir how to biodiesel trening senter in India
We have a biodiesel chemistry curriculum on our website that may be helpful here: biodieseleducation.org/Education/BiodieselChemistry.html, and a page of resources of those interested in a biodiesel small business here: biodieseleducation.org/Production/BiodieselSmallBusiness.html
Modern diesel fuel systems don’t do well with the extra water in bio diesel
That’s why it’s dried
It's interesting they use used vegetable oil, because in videos I've seen they just use used vegetable oil and muslin, and that's all it takes to run on a diesel engine. Burning a bit cleaner, and I think more mileage per volume.
Diesel engines burn clean already, way better than gasoline that it. Under normal usage, zero of the fuel escapes unburnt and it results in a clean burn almost every single time. The only way soot is produced is when the engine is under heavy load, not enough air or too much fuel. That even then can be corrected by properly dialing in the tuning of your diesel. And just recently, diesel got a retrofit program that can make it run off of 90 hydrogen, some kits generate it on board and some have a separate tank, it also increases thermodynamic efficiency by 26.2% from 40%. That equates it to be 66.2% thermodynamically efficient. Making it a viable option in the future, not to mention, economists are expecting a lithium shortage in the coming years, and this is the diesel retrofit, along with Hydrogens time to shine.
This is fantastic
We need a video for cellulosic ethanol.
Add 1 gallon for premium gasoline to 30 gallons of diesel. To increase the Octane and flow ability of your fuel! I have a 1998 12 valve Dodge Diesel! With 500,000 km. I’ve been doing this from when I bought the truck new😊
Well seeing how diesel is measured in cetane and not octane I’m not sure that possible
@@Crodgers88 we dont really measure them, but you can think of it as a thinner and primer, and some degree of detergent.
@@briliankamil4594 still not sure that's how that works
Does it smell like French fries when burned?
Yes it will, I am not sure if the smell will be as strong as burning pure veg oil but I do know that there is that french fry smell to it. This process is mostly just to thin out the oil and remove the hard to burn parts.
Actually rudolph diesel’s first engines ran on peanut oil not vegetable oil…
Still vegetable oil. Peanuts (my kryptonite) are considered a legume, which is a vegetable. This therefore it’s simply called vegetable oil for simplification.
Peanut is not vegetable???
*AKHCHUALLY!*
Hempseed oil is the best biodiesel, probably.
It's best to have a combination of both. Our world could not sustain hemp farming to cover our needs for fuel without destroying all the land.
@Jamie let’s see some numbers proving so
@@ElGueroLoco831 69/420 is your numbers. How about something called common sense?
@@jamie6387 Common sense being that your claim is baseless and I’d surmise that you likely know nothing about industrial agriculture?
@@ElGueroLoco831 Then go off buddy. I don't see any information from you that proves your point!
Ok the myth of the diesel engine was made to run on vegetable oil . What happened when he was showing it to a investor someone asked if they can run on peanut oil and he said why not .
methanol is toxic? I used to touch it all the time
Toxic to ingest. It can make you blind if you ingest it
It clogs the filters up
True story
Actually this is a side-effect that is a really good thing! High-quality biodiesel is actually a pretty decent-ish solvent which is good at cleaning, way better at cleaning than petroleum-diesel. So what happens is that once you add pure biodiesel into a USED diesel vehicle that used to run on petroleum-diesel, it will clean the tank and all the impurities end up clogging the fuel filter. You may have to change the fuel filter if this happens and if the tank and lines are really dirty then you may even have to change your filter twice. After that, you wont have any issues with clogged filters.
@@andrewwolitzki7799 Not true!
@@Youdontknow591 Biodiesel attracts and retains water. Water retention results in the perfect breeding ground for bacteria. This bacteria eats hydrocarbons and excretes acid. This acid eats away at storage tanks, producing sludge. The resulting bacteria colonies form slime mats of their own, clogging filters.
You are referring to the solvent quality of biodiesels. Great. So now we have dislodged particles that had previously been clinging to my fuel tank's wall, and they are heading downstream to clog my filters. What a disaster.
Shout out idol
Should be using hemp
And after all of this,you guys sued VW ..... Shame.
Chad dunkel is the ultimate chad boiis let’s be real he’s going to take all of your girls
I hane got it in 2003
Don't have to pay for gas if you can produce your own
You know, technically you are required by law to call whatever taxation office or council you have in your area and let them know just so you can pay taxes on making your own fuel.............................I wonder how much people are actually doing that.....I hope not alot. Its BS.
@@Youdontknow591 taxation is theft
One day in the not to distant future, this is gone be cheaper than pumping fossil fuels out of the ground
thats right
Diesel engines run just fine off filtered vegetable oil, it’s just your exhaust smells like a barbecue!!!
You're exhaust will still have that smell with biodiesel. Filtered oil will work technically but there some issues that may cause damage overtime but it largely depends. If you only filter the oil, the oil's PH is unchanged and you could be adding acidic oil to your car which may corrode things quicker. The thicker viscosity although its really good for lubricating the engine, it also make it difficult on your fuel pump (leading to more wear unless you have a strong pump) and your fuel injectors since they are unable to atomize such a thick fluid leading to an inefficient and unclean burn. Also veg oils gel up and thicken in cold weather much easier and are harder to cold start. Personally, I would only use filtered oil as a fuel if I were to install a second tank in my vehicle just for the oil, but to each their own.
Untill diesel becomes more people won't give a shit sadly, people are greedy it's just human nature.
Welp. It's more.
Gosh this diesel must be crap... The car is driving so slowly! I think the real Diesel from crude offers better perfomance, even the VW Beetle can make 100mph!
Not sure if your joking but thats not true! In the studies that I have read, the worst results they were able to collect if we are purely only talking about energy is that biodiesel has about 5% to 6% less energy which is virtually unnoticeable, adding to that, if you make biodiesel from waste oils, it will be a fraction of the cost of petroleum-diesel and will be kinder to your engine.
I live in city Just get at the stations
There is no such thing as fossil oil, If it has carbon in it, it is not fossilized.