You could also put a lid on it and add a vacuum pump, then boil off all the water at a much lower temperature to make it safer.

Use an air bubbler to bring the water to the top.

Just put a lid on it with a steam stack an let it be for a few hours.

Cool. I was wondering if I could use a deep fryer to remove water from some wet oil. This seals that idea :)

Nobody has mentioned how incredibly dangerous this is? Bringing hot water from the bottom into contact with the hotter oil floating on top can potentially cause the contents of the barrel to erupt out into the room - volcano style.

@AztecWarrior69

4 жыл бұрын

Um at 2:08 He said it himself that it is. So you are wrong about nobody mentioning it. Also you are wrong about how volcanoes erupt. Very hot lova is pushed up and breaks through letting out all that pressure. This is completely different. When water rises up from being stirred, not push up from pressures underneath, the expansion of gas molecules in the water are what create bubbles, and the expand and eventually bust. The busting is what is the problem. I sends hot oil flying.

@j4k3z

4 жыл бұрын

You can see all the volcanoes erupting in the video ;)

@marcusmason3440

2 жыл бұрын

Pah !! real men dont care about volcanoes..........

@ffjsb

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusmason3440 But the Wives of real men care when you burn down the house... This was clearly done inside a finished room. I'd do this outside if at all possible, or at minimum in a detached shed. If you do this in a building it's going to smell like old fryer grease for awhile.

Wow, 237 Deg F. Do you have the belt on a timer, or do you shut it off & let it dry out so to speak over night?

hell yea let's go

I want to make a portable wvo tank for my step van where I can dump and filter used wvo and then separate the water. I've read you can let it settle and then drain the water out, but this would take how much time?? and if you are driving around with a tank of this then it's probably not going to settle well right? Heating it how you did is interesting but doing this in a van for living that uses solar power for electricity??? Looking for ideas on portable tanks.

@technosausage

3 ай бұрын

Small 20L vacuum chamber from ebay. Heat it to 40°C and then the vacuum will make the water boil off without needing to be 100°C+ (~200°F)

What's the difference between turning it into biodiesel and just burning it as oil?

@mattkrier5856

Жыл бұрын

You get the glycerin out so that you don't coke up your engine.

does the drum heater belt heat it to boiling in the drum, if it does it would be great to distill water with a closed top drum

What about wmo can you bring that up to a slight boil?

Why can't you just syphon for the top and leave the water in the bottom

I would never stand within the range of 200liter of oil at that temperature ,it's super dangerous

@jaffasoft8976

2 ай бұрын

Thousands of chefs and restaurant owners and ppl at home around the globe daily stand in front of deep frier oil at temps of 170-190 degrees celsius cooking all day long and done so for decades. He is heating it to less a temp and obviously done it many times.

2024... anybody?

Heating such a large vat of oil is a waste of resources. Its easier to syphon off the water from the bottom with a simple piece of tubing. No resources used as you syphon it cold. Then syphon the oil into another container with the tube of the syphon held off the bottom of the barrel so it does not pick up any water thats left. Simple, safer, and doesnt waste resources.

@technosausage

3 ай бұрын

This is much quicker and more effective for removing the water that doesnt settle out after sitting almost like its dissolved in there.

@roberttill3787

3 ай бұрын

@@technosausage How is it much quicker? you have to get a barrel of oil to over two hundred degrees, that takes a long time in the first place. Then you have to mess about stirring it and attending it, with the added possibility of being scalded, maybe fatally. Oil floats on water, its easier to just either suck the water out, or the oil. each is clearly visible as a layer, even in a cube. You are also not considering the cost of getting oil so hot, which kills the idea of making cheap fuel. I would drain the water by siphoning, then once it is processed put it through a centrifuge.

@jaffasoft8976

2 ай бұрын

@@roberttill3787 you're inexperienced. The water gets trapped in the fat molecules as well and floats in the rest of the oil it's not all on the bottom. If you just take the oil from the top you can still ruin your injection pump etc as i have done it before with water in the oil. It goes straight through the filters and you don't even know it.

@roberttill3787

2 ай бұрын

@@jaffasoft8976 Inexperienced nothing. You need to remove the water at the lowest cost as otherwise its not cheap fuel, and takes up a considerable amount of precious time and money. The best and most economical way is as i stated, manually drain it. If you are further worried about water retention, run it through a centrifuge. Dont forget, water washing the finished product likely microscopically contaminates the fuel to the level you say, so again would need moisture extraction by centrifuge.