On The Road Videos

As we've said before, gone are the days where you can just show up at a restaurant and expect them to give you their oil.  Many independent collectors have worked out a competitive advantage over the large renderers by offering value added services to their oil collection.   Personalized service, grease trap cleaning and now oil management has given local indy guys an edge.   Let's take a  look at Green Tech's new endeavor into fryer filtration and servicing, or oil management.

The complete fryer cleaning kit and training is provided by Refried Means, a company that helps independent oil collectors to establish an oil management business.  Their equipment is tried and true, and they back it up with excellent support and training.

Oil management reduces the vegetable oil cost of the restaurants by extending the

Mike gives us a glimpse into his #6 crude oil cleaning operation.   He bought the centrifuge to remove asphaltenes and other gunk from the crude oil so that he can use it in his 83 and 85 300d Mercedes.  He mixes the crude oil with kerosene and then runs it through the Raw Power Centrifuge.  Results have been extraordinary.   Take a look.  Email Mike with questions mmeeks1022@gmail.com

-Jason Jelonek

That's a glimpse into my local veggie co-op.   To some, the term "co-op" inaccurately describes a group where one person does all the work.   Fortunately with our group,  the term co-op accurately describes how we function.  Not everyone does the exact same amount of work, but no one is working too hard and there has always been oil ready.   Someone always knows when to pitch in and help when there is work to do.  A responsibility many of us don't learn until much later in life.

We keep a running tab of how much oil each individual brings in, and that is how much they can take out.  There are 3 of us.  Until someone has a significant interest in joining(and a  potential contribution to offer), we offer people clean oil in trade for dirty.  We take 50%  of the oil that we clean.  This 50% arragement  has been a mutually advantageous system I've used for years.

The process is simple.   We collect our oil from local restaurants in the 5 gallon cubies.  We then settle the oil i

We travel to visit Paul Totman in Colusa, California to visit a seed to biodiesel facility. They are running two 5 tonne seed presses feeding into a WVO designs Beast Centrifuge for de-gumming. Biodiesl processing, methanol and glycerin recovery with springboard equipment

WVO Designs - On The Road Episode #4 from WVO Designs on Vimeo.

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Ben, Chad and Derek with the Lost Bus Project come to visit WVO Designs at the beginning of their year journey to share their passion for the environment and outdoor activities.

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WVO Designs visits Jeremy Nutma in Airdrie, Alberta. Jeremy shows us his WVO filling station, Centrifuge and collection equipment.

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