Gary has been experimenting with WVO on his Isuzu P'up(1982 Chevy Luv 2wd short bed diesel). He's used and documented testing with a number of WVO Design's parts along with others. His Forum is well populated with is photos, testing results and discussions. He's currently working on a project to swap a diesel engine into his Trooper. Sweet!
Gary also has an interesting oil processing procedure he explained to me:
My process is a little different than most. I don't rely on the centrifuge for de-watering. I use a heated recirculation process using a monster gear pump, 2000 Watt heater in a 50 gallon steel drum, a WVO Designs 1000 Watt in-line heater just after the gear pump and a Utah Bio-diesel drying head. I blow in dry air from a 1000 watt heater into the 50 gallon drying drum and exhaust out the humid air using an exhaust fan. I typically dry the oil for 4 hours in the winter and 3 hours in the warmer months. The Northwest weather is usually cold and humid in the winter or dry and warm in the summer.
I pump the dry oil to a top drum using the monster gear pump and gravity feed the oil to the centrifuge. The finished oil from the centrifuge is gravity fed to the lower barrel.
People ask me why I process my oil this way. My goal before starting this project was to develop a method to process oil that was as simple, fast and as little mess and waste as possible. So I decided to outfit my truck with a system that could burn as much of the finished oil as possible. That is the ability to burn the partially hydrogenated oil as well as the clear oil. This would require a completely heated veggie system in my Isuzu diesel pickup.
Here are the benefits of my system:
- No settling of the veggie oil is required.
- Oil is transferred from the totes to the drying barrel via a suction wand and monster gear pump.
- The water is removed from all of the veggie oil, the clear as well as the partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
- Oil passes the "Hot Pan" test.
- Very small amount of waste oil.
- No bag filters or frequent replacement of filter cartridges.
- Easy clean up of the centrifuge bowl by using a heat gun to melt and drain solids from the bowl.
- So far I have never plugged a veggie fuel filter yet.
I use about 4.5 cents/per gallon of electricity to process the oil.
A nice configuration with WVO Designs Valves
Keep up the great work Gary!
-Jason Jelonek
Gary has been experimenting with WVO on his Isuzu P'up(1982 Chevy Luv 2wd short bed diesel). He's used and documented testing with a number of WVO Design's parts along with others. His Forum is well populated with is photos, testing results and discussions. He's currently working on a project to swap a diesel engine into his Trooper. Sweet!
