WVO Filter System - 1

Here is one common home made system from the public forums at greasecar.com. You could easily modify this to fit your needs:

I collect my oil from the restaurant in the 5 gallon jugs they buy it in. I pour these through a funnel with a fine screen (really big funnel - I made it myself out of an old orange traffic cone) into a 55 gallon drum.

This drum has a valve installed about 12 inches above the bottom. After the oil has been in it for about a week, I draw it out through the valve, into a jug or bucket, and pour it into a second 55 gallon drum, mounted about four feet above the ground. (At this point, the oil looks beautiful - the screen and settling have done a lot of cleaning.) This second 55 gallon also also has a drain set about 12 inches above the bottom. Attached to this drain is a hose, which goes to a GE Smartwater filter with 5 micron element. Oil flows, gravity feed, through the filter and into a third 55 gallon drum standing on the ground. This drum also has a drain mounted about 12 inches above the bottom. This is where I draw my clean oil.

Seems to work fine. It's rather slow, and the oil just trickles through the filter. But once you get twenty or thirty gallons ahead, who cares how long it takes.

I also have a drain in the bottom of each drum so I can drain any sediment or water that collects down there.

I now have the system worked out enough that it doesn't leak or spill at all so I will move it into the basement next to the furnace or wood stove for the winter.

My 1st Filter System - My Current "Grease Grotto" - Filter System - 2

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