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Originally Posted by jtomasik
Clay, what does the filtration/de-water process cost you? Is it a special system you set up?
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There are many methods people have come up with to properly do this either with a very inexpensive system (very time consumming process to filter and dewater) or with a more expensive setup (less time consuming process).
I used the design of the
"Frybrid Still" Here you will see plans to build a collection barrel which can be set out back of a resturant for them to pour oil in for you and at the bottom of this page you will see the plans to build the "Still". This is what I built. It takes very little of my time and works well. So far i have not filtered a batch of oil that tested to have any water in it afterwards.
This cost me around 800 bucks to build. The fiter housing and pump are your main cost and if you can find a used water heater thats not rotted out, you'll save a couple hundred bucks. I couldn't find a used heater so i bought one at home depot.
here is a picture of mine.
I added to this design and put a "prefilter barrel" next to the heater. The blue barrel has the white bucket setting in it about 3", bucket has 1/4" holes drilled in the bottom with a filter material (old T-shirt) lining the bucket. I pour my 5 gallon jugs of oil into the white bucket, it filters through the T-shirt and runs into the barrel. Then adjust a couple of ball valves and pump it into the heater....the rest of the process is spelled out in the link above.This extra step just allows me to keep larger chunks of crud out of the filter when i polish filter it with the X-100 and makes those filters last longer. This thing holds 100 gallons so i can process alot of oil in very little time.
Get on the Forum at Frybrid and ask questions about other peoples filtration methods. They will be glad to help.
Good luck!
