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Old 05-21-2007, 08:03 AM
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Question about WVO...

Alright, I'm researching/planning my home WVO filtering setup and was wondering what everyone is using in their garage/yard to filter your WVO you pick up. I'm Only going to be doing 50-75 gallons a week and would like to get my home setup planned with sizes, part numbers and prices BEFORE I convert my truck over to an SVO burner.
I'm thinking one or two 55gal barrels for pickup/storage of dirty WVO (which I would pre-filter with a pair of bluejeans to get the big stuff out), a heater/filter and pump to a waterheater for heating and settling, pump and filter bank for fine filtering to multiple 55gallon barrels for storage, then through a final heater/filter/pump to put the SVO in my aux tank in the truck.
Does that sound about right? Did I nuke it too much? Anything I'm forgetting?
I would prefer to have about 50-100 gallons already filtered and done before I get the truck converted so that I'm not cruising around with the kit on the truck and no SVO to run it on.

Also...pics and explaination of your home filtering setup would be awesome.
(I'm going to be getting/installing the VegiStoke system in the somewhat-near future.)

Thanks!

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Old 05-24-2007, 05:28 AM
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Not sure how much this will help, but that setup is what I'm planning also.

Where are you buying and what pumps will you be using?
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Old 05-24-2007, 06:53 AM
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I would filter through a 10 micron sock out of the truck through a pressurized filter setup (made from a 5 gallon bucket w/ a sealed top). From there, heat in an open drum with a standpipe and run through a 5 micron into a large storage tote (I have a couple 330 gal. totes if you need one). Then just do a final 5 micron while pumping into the truck.
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Old 05-26-2007, 07:45 AM
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i use a few large filter socks with progressive finer filters . i filter without heating because when heated animal fats will turn liquid and pass throught filters but will return to solid when the temps go down.
filter socks dont really filter to there rated # so use a cartrige filter after the socks. sun settling is good . if you got a 3 week lead time on colection and fueling ..
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