Oil Cleaning Method & Summary

Oil Cleaning Method: The first thing to clean the oil is to pour it through an oil filter. Second, you want to heat the oil until it gets to 100 degrees, and place it on a heating unit, preferably on a stove. Third, get some Methanol and put it into a pump that is made from nylon or else you can have the risk of it being destroyed and making a fire. Fourth, you have to get some lye and mix it with the Methanol. Methanol combined with Lye will create sodium methoxide that you will have to put into a coffee can. Fifth, you have to clean the bucket and pour in the oil. After this, put only half of the sodium methoxide mix that you created earlier. After you wait two minutes, you can now add the remained sodium methoxide. Now that you've done this, use a paint mixing drill to mix them up for 30 minutes. Now that you're finished, leave the finished product alone for 12 hours. Finally, you're biodiesel can be used as an alternative fuel.


Key Point Summary:
The main purpose of this lab project is for us to learn the process of creating a friendly bio diesel fuel that can be used as an alternative for regular diesel. We are also learning how to clean oil, and how that can be used for the bio diesel. This project also teaches you the processes that you must take, experimenting, testing out class-made samples, and most importantly, how this diesel is different than the other producers that produce it everyday. With the resources that we have in our hands, our objective is to get a school bus to operate with the bio diesel we made! The project will include, extracting food particles from the used cooking oil, how to mix the mixture to make sure if it's too much, or too little...etc.