Where can i get used vegetable oil for free?

[Maximilian]

Help! Where?

 

[jumpr]

restaurants

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Fast food restaurant?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Run a Diesel, do we?

 

[mugs]

McDonalds

 

[Maximilian]

Sweet, k, so i just wander into a chip shop or mcdonalds and ask them for it? Think theyll set up a regular collection scheme?

Its not for me, its part of a placement, its my job to find a free source of vege oil.

 

[henryay]

Disposal companies normally charge a fee for collecting oil. If you do it for free and environmentally friendly, I'm sure restaurant will be happy to go with you.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Go to chip shops. Most will be happy to give you their old waste oil as they have to dispose of tens of gallons a week. Don't forget you need to filter it and add a solvent to prevent it congealing/waxing up in the cold.

 

[FoBoT]

there is no free lunch

 

[50cent1228]

r u trying to make your car run on veggie oil

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: henryay
Disposal companies normally charge a fee for collecting oil. If you do it for free and environmentally friendly, I'm sure restaurant will be happy to go with you.

I think it would be especially bad in the U.K., as they tend to tax everything to death.

 

[RU482]

I just gave away ~50 gallons last week. A couple of barrels and cubbies.
WHERE WERE YOU!!!

 

[Injury]

Most restaurants have companies that collect it and sell it off for soap and crap like that.

Don't waste your time at any mainstream restaurant.

 

[compuwiz1]

Try local mom and pop places like burger joints and mexican food places.

Making some biodiesel?

 

[drnickriviera]

Times have changed. All the big oil recovery companies now know they can make biodiesel. Now they are collecting the oil for free, and in some cases paying the restaurants for their oil.

If you are making biodiesel, the best place to get oil are chinese restaurants. They change the oil frequently.

<-- Just finished refining my second batch of biodiesel.

 

[Maximilian]

Sweet. Ok, ill find a privately run chippy somwhere.

Its good to know theres people here who can tell me stuff its my 100 hour placement to research a ton of stuff, the primary thing is bio-diesel. The guys a bit optimistic about the whole thing, even wants to make soap out of the after product (this aint a large or even medium corporation) its a small buisness. I was gonna advise they buy a B400 making 400 litres every 70 minutes, probably a little out of their budget though.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Strk

Originally posted by: henryay
Disposal companies normally charge a fee for collecting oil. If you do it for free and environmentally friendly, I'm sure restaurant will be happy to go with you.

I think it would be especially bad in the U.K., as they tend to tax everything to death.

No. It's old oil. Selling it as fuel garners a 27p per litre tax, though. Much less that the duty on Diesel.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: redly1
I just gave away ~50 gallons last week. A couple of barrels and cubbies.
WHERE WERE YOU!!!

In England, perhaps?

 

[iamaelephant]

This stuff won't be free for long, enjoy it while you can. As more and more people run their diesel engines on Vege oil even fish shops and McDonalds will start charging for it.

 

[drnickriviera]

Originally posted by: Soviet
Sweet. Ok, ill find a privately run chippy somwhere.

Its good to know theres people here who can tell me stuff its my 100 hour placement to research a ton of stuff, the primary thing is bio-diesel. The guys a bit optimistic about the whole thing, even wants to make soap out of the after product (this aint a large or even medium corporation) its a small buisness. I was gonna advise they buy a B400 making 400 litres every 70 minutes, probably a little out of their budget though.

Link doesn't work, but I bet I know what it is. Just build you own reactor out of a water heater.

What, is he going to try and sell gylcerine bar soap? I just recover the methanol and cut the glycerine down with water. Makes a great degreaser.

 

[jadinolf]

Make sure you filter it.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: drnickriviera

Originally posted by: Soviet
Sweet. Ok, ill find a privately run chippy somwhere.

Its good to know theres people here who can tell me stuff its my 100 hour placement to research a ton of stuff, the primary thing is bio-diesel. The guys a bit optimistic about the whole thing, even wants to make soap out of the after product (this aint a large or even medium corporation) its a small buisness. I was gonna advise they buy a B400 making 400 litres every 70 minutes, probably a little out of their budget though.

Link doesn't work, but I bet I know what it is. Just build you own reactor out of a water heater.

What, is he going to try and sell gylcerine bar soap? I just recover the methanol and cut the glycerine down with water. Makes a great degreaser.

Fixed, yea i looked at it, but neither me or the other guy doing this placement are good at DIY. So unless the boss wants to do it himself then hes gonna have to buy one or hire a DIY guy. He might have one made already hopefully, cant remember. He was pretty sketchy on the details of my task.

 

[drnickriviera]

There's no way I'd start with 400L unless I had done a bunch of smaller batches. Get your titration wrong or the wrong methoxide mix and you'll have 400L of gelled up junk.