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I got the roof off the shed to allow light in, have tarps ready to cover it incase of bad weather. Haha **** tank still leaks like a sieve so I bring the water level up once a week or so.
I finally got some semi professional help with wiring up my processing rig. Keep in mind, I'm the type...
Well I didn feel like doing work in English class so here we go, I will take a few better ones when i get home
Also, even though its large and square and holds 1800 gallons of water, the algae does get the light it needs, I have a few tricks for that one! The tank took all of a few days to...
One guy who did an experiment in a 300 gallon trough got a 10:1 ratio per week. Meaning he had 30 gallons of algae oil in a week. I can only hope for something similar!
Scalabilty for me means moving up to 20-30 thousand gallon tanks so i am excited!!
Here's a bit of an update. The tank is all rebuilt, 1200 gallons of water in it right now, about 30 gallons of algae and now I wait! It would have 1800 gallons of water but I have no faith in my construction! I'll post a picture of it soon, even though I have said that many times already
the spaces in your link make it not work, but this one is at the bottom of that list
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well the two algae strains have their differences. One is a max of 5 microns, one is 50 microns. the 50 micron one has flagella which are how they move around in liquid, the small one has no flagella but it does like to latch on to the large one for movement and they feed each other...
ok, the tank is back in place. This is the hokiest thing i have ever built, and that showed when it burst.... so its a little less hokey now!!
just gotta water proof it again then refill, the algae is ready to go from its small 30 gallons up to the full 1800 gallon containers once its ready...
Well i fixed the leaks, then proceeded to put the last 700 gallons of water in. Well when we built it, we used heavy duty brackets, lag screws, washers, all the good stuff.... appearently on one corner, we forgot to reinforce the part that the brackets bolted to... well lets just say, if i had...
gotta love them college girls eh? [thumbzup]
congrats on the first duece, there better be some tatah's on the freeway waiting for me when i drive home my first MV!
Yeah whenever I get people started on b100 I always tell them to carry around a fuel filter and the tool to change it and learn how ahead of time, after about 4 full tanks it should have dislodged most everything. One guy had to change his fuel filter 3 times before it finally stopped clogging...
but what about the folks who have no access to waste oils? My friends parents run a restaurant chain, guess where their oil goes? gotta love redneck chemists though :cookoo:
Biodiesel processors: Journey to Forever
this is the website i got started
and with all my research dry washing has shown to be the best and can be made on your own very easily
biodiesel would rot the rubber lines anyways. being a biodiesel guy myself, i have a natural hate for ethanol, beyond the facts that it sucks. go up above 7000 feet in the mountains and they cant sell gasoline with ethanol in it, fill up, come home, and get 24 mpg in a 1/2 ton pickup
most of...
Another recommendation for if you decide to produce your own Bio diesel, is to research dry washing. Everything I have seen has shown that it just produces a top notch quality product, the towers can be made by an afternoon date with a metal roller and a welder.
An update on my algae tank, I...
if a few miracles occur and maybe a pig flies over head I could be in production. I would love to be selling fuel by august but I appear to be a lazy bum and don't follow my own deadlines as well as I need to
I'm working on it! haha
no problem, earlier in this thread i linked journey to forever, thats where i got started in biodiesel and subsequently algae. there are many companies that sell biodiesel makers and such but beware, they are mostly over priced and some dont even have a wet or dry washing stage at all. its...
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