scrapping old fuel oil tanks, drums of oil (motor or waste veggie) and other sources

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06-15-2018, 10:13 AM
tuprox

scrapping old fuel oil tanks, drums of oil (motor or waste veggie) and other sources

Well jsut this week it would havbe been possible to get about 110 gallons of 8 month old gas (they say it is bad, though I don't know if that is correct) and probably 4-8 55 gal drums of either used motor oil or waste vegetable oil. These often come in steel drums or in plastic (blue plastic) drums.

Now I wish I had a multi fuel engine like in the old duece & 1/2's that could burn everything down to pine needles (well almost). Then I could build a genny to run off this engine that can burn any of the fuels I've seen.

I'm trying to find out if any of you know of other good uses for large amounts of oil like this. I would guess I could probably find 200-800 gallons per month of heavy fuels or oils but I need to find a way to make this worth getting even if it means building or buying a furnace/burner.

For those who don't know, and this is really awesome, you can actually make a freezer, air conditioner, refrigerator and other cooling appliances by using the heat from the oil(s) through a known reaction process (been around for about 120-150 years) and is EXTREMELY simple and most units don't have any moving parts or some very minor parts.

I guess it could be used to cool some large buildings in the summer and heat in the winter.

anyone have any suggestion for what could be done with this?
06-15-2018, 11:10 AM
JohnC4X4

Not sure about cooling BUT most of the auto repair shops around here use used oil to heat with

https://www.google.com/search?q=wast...nt=firefox-b-1
06-15-2018, 01:14 PM
Patriot76

Waste oil is a regular fuel for shop furnaces here as well. Many diesel motors burn vegetable oil in this part of the country. Both are cheap (free) sources of fuel. I do not know if there would be a market if individuals were paying for it. I would be interested in how it is used for cooling.
06-15-2018, 01:57 PM
Proton

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Originally Posted by Patriot76

Waste oil is a regular fuel for shop furnaces here as well. Many diesel motors burn vegetable oil in this part of the country. Both are cheap (free) sources of fuel. I do not know if there would be a market if individuals were paying for it. I would be interested in how it is used for cooling.

google - ammonia absorption refridgeration

Either alloy2 or gustavus did a post on it long ago can't remeber if freonjoe chimed in or not but he should know all about it. It would have been part of the course material for his Tq.

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06-15-2018, 02:20 PM
Proton

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Originally Posted by tuprox

Well jsut this week it would havbe been possible to get about 110 gallons of 8 month old gas (they say it is bad, though I don't know if that is correct) and probably 4-8 55 gal drums of either used motor oil or waste vegetable oil. These often come in steel drums or in plastic (blue plastic) drums.

Now I wish I had a multi fuel engine like in the old duece & 1/2's that could burn everything down to pine needles (well almost). Then I could build a genny to run off this engine that can burn any of the fuels I've seen.

I'm trying to find out if any of you know of other good uses for large amounts of oil like this. I would guess I could probably find 200-800 gallons per month of heavy fuels or oils but I need to find a way to make this worth getting even if it means building or buying a furnace/burner.

For those who don't know, and this is really awesome, you can actually make a freezer, air conditioner, refrigerator and other cooling appliances by using the heat from the oil(s) through a known reaction process (been around for about 120-150 years) and is EXTREMELY simple and most units don't have any moving parts or some very minor parts.

I guess it could be used to cool some large buildings in the summer and heat in the winter.

anyone have any suggestion for what could be done with this?

Your best bet is to sell the used fossil oil to a refinery, years ago I sold to one in BC they take a sample before your permitted to offload. The lab runs a few tests to see how much water is in the oil and no this water is homogenised and will not settle out.

A centrifugal oil cleaner would remove the anti freeze, water and sludge.

Any how they had a scale to pay out one and it all depended on water.

Mostly I brought in used oil but on a few occasions heavy bunker fuel oil.

The refinery probably would reject the vegetable oil.

Sometimes a discarded shop rag would find its way into my two inch Blackmer pump no damage just a hassle to remove the blockage.

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