Use WVO in the oil furnace and keep these house warm.
As heating costs rise and concerns about peak oil seem closer to being realized, people are turning to alternative ways to heat their house in winter. For some, heating with wood is not an option. There is another alternative: Heating with waste vegetable oil, or WVO, which can be used in your oil furnace. The WVO has lower emissions than fuel oil, and it can be processed to work in your furnace. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Pump WVO into the 275-gallon storage tank. You can get discarded vegetable oil from restaurants in your area.
2. Gravity feed the oil through the pipe into a 55-gallon drum. When you have added 40 gallons of oil to the drum, add 10 gallons of methanol. Add enough lye to cause the two liquids to agitate or react.
3. Heat the drum to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Stir the mixture with a long pole for an hour. Make sure there is plenty of ventilation as you do so; if you're working in a garage, keep the door open. Let stand for about eight hours. To stir the mixture in the drum, you may have to stand on a stool.
4. Drain the lighter biodiesel from the top of the drum (the heavier glycerine sinks to the bottom). Put the biodiesel into plastic containers that you can wheel about and can hold 28 gallons.
5. Fill your furnace oil tank with the biodiesel you made from WVO.
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