Videos of using BioPro190

Here's a nice way to filter the oil, using a dryer screen!


and here's the procedure for adding the chemicals and starting the batch..



Making a simple KOH funnel using a piece of X-Ray film:



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Great Conference!

The 2008
Collective Biodiesel Conference in Golden, Colorado was a lot of fun with many great presentations and wonderful people. I especially enjoyed the students from Dickenson College and their presentations about glycerin composting and methanol recovery. One of the pics here shows Andrew with a slide of their reflux column on top of their Appleseed. They pack the 30 inch pipe with copper scrubbing pads for the water contaminating the methanol vapor to condense on, thus creating higher purity methanol. I love simple technology like that! Heating up to 260 deg F, they're still able to get 95% + purity. Their glycerin composting experiments were carefully done, and show that adding glycerin (with methanol removed) stimulates plant growth in their initial experiments. They've already published some of these results in Biodiesel Smarter magazine, a great new publication for and by biodiesel homebrewers. Plus I really had fun hanging out with these bright young folks, and look forward to hearing about their future projects. Click here for more info..
It was also great to hear from folks talking about their biodiesel coops and hearing how they work and deal with many of the same issues Dirty Hands has dealt with.

All of the presentations plus video will eventually be posted on the website, so stay tuned. Many thanks to organizers John Bush and Jonathon Meuser- they really worked hard and brought an amazing group of people together.

Collective Biodiesel Conference 7/18 - 20

If you can swing it, the Collective Biodiesel Conference in Golden Colorado will be fantastic. This is grass roots biodiesel at it's best, and will include folks from lots of biodiesel coops, and experts such as Girl Mark and Matt Rudolf from Piedmont Biofuels Coop, and many others. I'll be presenting about The Dirty Hands Biodiesel Coop in Seattle, which has been going for over a year now providing sustainable reasonably priced biodiesel for it's 20+ members. You'll learn from many experienced biodieselers who will cover most every topic you can think of. Check it out at: http://www.collectivebiodiesel.org/
BTW, my workshop in Everett this Saturday 7/12 still has space, and this will the last one I do till late September. Hope you can make it. Info: www.biolyle.com/workshops

Packed workshops! Tacoma and Seattle - form a bio-making coop!

Wow, the high price of commercial fuel has sure sparked interest in homebrew biodiesel! My workshop in Tacoma in June had a record 41 people, and about 30 showed up at the Phinney Center in Seattle last weekend. I've been taking emails and zip codes of folks interested in joining forces to brew biodiesel, so I can help match them up by neighborhood. Let me know if you're interested: biolyle@gmail.com Pics below, and many thanks to Jamie Paulson and Derek at Suite 133 for putting the Tacoma workshop together.. Here's a link to Jamie's blog.