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Matt & Roy's Grease Grotto
Matt Moreno came along and helped me evolve from
the bucket filtering system into a more advanced, complicated, setup for
filtering and fueling. Actually, we have re-done the system many times.
Changing pumps, tanks, experimenting with many pipes & hoses, different
containers and such. It has been a hobby project under work. We
often get more WVO than we use. Better too much than not enough.
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you can see our setup as it is May 2007. It will be changing yet
again very soon. We have one large 250 gal square container on the far
left. We use that to store extra WVO in. Sometimes, if we get
enough extra we trade WVO with a BioDiesel maker buddy. We have a 5
gal metal can we use to pour out the WVO through a metal strainer to capture
any big chunks. Then the oil passes through an inline mesh screen of
about 200 microns, through the pump and into the large square container, or
into the water heater. (The water heater is vented on top with lines
that drain into the large WVO container.)Once we
have a Hot water tank full of WVO we run several heat & cooling cycles on it
over the course of as many days as we can. We shoot for at least a
full week, but the longer we go the better settling action we get.
Before final filtering we drain off about 10% from the bottom of the hot
water tank. This gets out the water and any particulate matter and
most of what we call "gravy".
For final filtering we pump from the water heater through
the inline 200 then through another inline 100 micron mesh then through a
metal housing that holds a 25 micron filter bag, then it is pumped into a
double filter bag setting in the oval tank.
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double filter bag is a 5 micron bag inside a 2 micron filter bag setting in
the mouth of the oval tank. This is our final holding area for
filtered ready to use WVO. It is quite a bit more elaborate than is
needed, but we are having fun and we are getting great filtered oil to use
in our diesel grease rigs. Matt really loves valves, handles and switches.
He has more valves on this sucker than I can count! We are
planning to replace the metal filter bag holder with a taller blue plastic
filter bag holder you can spot in the pictures. Did I mention that we
experiment allot, and that Matt digs levers and switches? Matt
just purchased a gadget to put our WVO in the hot water tank under Vacuum.
That is suppose to get rid of Moisture in our WVO. Moisture is a bad
thing, and the more we can remove moisture the better everything works.
Longer filter life on all the filters here and in the cars, and better
running in the engines. I'm sure Matt will have a few more valves to
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The nice little pump we have like the filters comes from McMaster Carr.
I'll plug in some details here soon. But, it has been a great pump for
the last 2 years. From the big mushroom final filtered oil tank we can
pump directly into our vehicles as you can see below. The entire
operation is taking up about 10X10 area in a 10X20 storage canopy.
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Here are some pics of Matt and I filling both cars with filtered
oil. I'll get some better pics and udated info on our filtering/fueling system ASAP.
My 1st Filter System- Current "Grease Grotto" - Filter
System - 2
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