How to turn plastic waste into diesel fuel cheaply

[jose manu]

I think we need to comprise a list of materials that can be pyrolised into fuel,
Other than plastic, waste oil and tyres....

Anything Into Oil | DiscoverMagazine.com

[imakebiodiesel]

Jose's link to the Discover article about Changing World Technologies is an interesting one. The absurdly grandiose title of the company should have given us a hint.

2003. The company was on a campaign to attract investors,promises of massive profits, inflated estimates, ignored costs, ridiculous hype etc.
2005 The cracks were starting to show. The Carthage plant could not produce even half the fuel it promised and the quality was so low it had to be sold cheap as bunker oil.
2009. The company went bankrupt and the plant closed.
2011 . The plant reopened briefly under new management but was closed because of objections to the foul smell and polluted local waterways.

Lesson... If something seems too good to be true, then it almost certainly is.

Changing World Technologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

IMB Biodiesel Processors

[mjohnson1]

If you think about it logically it all makes sense. Turkey bones aren't made from crude oil so why go through all that effort to try to turn it into a little bit of biofuel.

The best feedstocks are all produced using crude oil.

[Ron Hammar]

Dlanor

Hi all,

Just got done reading all 87 pages and now I can post. I have a question.

I have a lot of septic solids and can they be used as fuel? Also a dairy farm near by and there is a lot of Cow ****, could that also be used as fuel? I do not recall any one talking about this in past post. Also there is a local butcher house that has a lot of animal part and hides that are for the taking. Could that be used also as fuel?

going to start working on a small unit made out of LPG tanks that I have which are out dated. I will be a 7gal tank and want to use the Rocket mass stove fire box to heat it and use the heat from it to heat my green house in the winter time when i make fuel.

Hope I get some feed back and this is a great site!

[jonathan]

retort burner

finally l do it thanks for help all of you god bless friends no smell no black fumes
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[mikiskmk]

questions

I was construct machine... I have good results but i have one interesting liquid!

So, i have oil what I expected. Im using mostly broken car plastic, bumpers, cockpits etc.. and nice results...

But i have one liquid light blue very clean and heavier than water! and burning like hell!... so, this liquid doesnt mixed with water or oil...

second question is i dont know how to attach picture here :s... i click on ,,insert image,, and it appear little box to write url?

[Excalibur]

second question is i dont know how to attach picture here :s... i click on ,,insert image,, and it appear little box to write url?

This Youtube video tutorial is the "how to" about using Photobucket to get photos on a forum.
The Photobucket site has changed a bit since this video but the basics are much the same.
Hope this helps.

[mikiskmk]

...

This Youtube video tutorial is the "how to" about using Photobucket to get photos on a forum.
The Photobucket site has changed a bit since this video but the basics are much the same.
Hope this helps.

thanks for help

[Beyond Biodiesel]

Hello BB, I'm from Germany and have read the whole thread1 time, now reading it the 2. time to make notes. Every time I click one of Your links, I'm asked for a username and password. Why ? And how I'm to access these links ?Please give me a hint.
Regards Hoske.

The Beyond Biodiesel forum is back from the dead. So, hopefully all of the links are back to working, but everything from February to now is gone. Sorry folks, but some people just need to hack what they do not understand.

[marmelada]

Hard to believe that smth like this can be done. If it is possible to produce diesel at price of 17 cents why not put this device into mass production?

[mtrans]

jesi sve citao?

[white8]

Has anyone tried wood chips for a feed stock rather than plastic? In my area there are several companies starting to produce oil from plastics so feed stocks are very hard to find. Wood chips are readily available and will come to me free of charge.

[Beyond Biodiesel]

Has anyone tried wood chips for a feed stock rather than plastic? In my area there are several companies starting to produce oil from plastics so feed stocks are very hard to find. Wood chips are readily available and will come to me free of charge.

I live in a forest, so I too am very interested in extracting fuel out of wood. Biomass, or wood gas are the terms used for that. I find their methods a bit crude for my taste. I plan to combine a basic wood gas consuming device with my cat-cracking fractionating system.

Here is a YouTube on a WWII wood gas truck worth looking at

Hesselman Vedgasverk Wood gas truck

[rozier56]

Hi MaturitySpring..I think you are confused what bio fuel is ...it needs chemicals mixed with it to process it ...biofuel can very dangerous to prepare....the way this is cracked from PP would be very very low and not likely to cause any danger in its preparation...there will be alcohol residual from the condencer...but you will exhaust this with a burn pipe....what is left over in the heating still is ash and could be pressed into briketts and used in a wood stove ......Doug

Hi.just been reading this great site recently.Iam going to try this idea out.I have purchased a 150 ltr reaction vessel, which will be heated by an lpg burner.My question is, do i simply attach a copper cooling coil to the vessel and collect the distillate.Will this be the diesel i require?
Any idea about the length of copper coil required and must the coil be cooled in a water jacket.
Notice some folks talk about viewing a video, where do i access this pls.
Regards,
Derek

[rozier56]

Derek

Hi,seems i posted incorrectly,sorry, hope this works.I have recently been reading this great site and decided to give it a go.
I have purchased a 150ltr vessel,which will be heated with lpg gas burner to 350-400deg C.a copper coil will vent from the top,collecting the gases and passed through a water cooled coil.will this result in the required diesel to power a car? seems to good to be true.
Can you advise on the length of cooling coil required.i am using a 20mm diameter copper pipe.
Also some of your viewers seem to have watched a video, where does one access this pls?
Regards.