My WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil Filtration) System

Heres some photos of system in development

220l Barrels sourced from Gumtree.  I gave them a good wash as they were clearly home to some cleaning agent/solvent previously.  

Frame built around some lightweight building blocks.  I took the liberty of building in our unfurnished dining room as it was cold outside.  Work progressed quickly!

I wanted to have a design that was easy to disassemble to allow cleaning of the barrels and also to get the thing out of the door!

 The system is based around a 9 stage filtration taking it down to 1 micron! The stages are as follows

1. Course Sieve
2. Medium Sieve
3. Fine Sieve
4. Course Filter Sock
5. Medium Filter Sock
6. Fine Filter Sock
7. 50 micron 10" filter
8. 10 micron 10" filter
9. 1 micron 10" filter

 The system uses a single pump that can be configured using valves to allow pumping between barrels and into the container for filling the vehicle.

My plumbing skills are fairly rudimentary and it was quite enjoyable putting it all together as it took shape quite quickly.

Heres the system more or less finished.  Just need to move it to its permanent site outdoors and test!

Vegetable oil Dreams

Hi all.  Its been a while since I have updated the blog.  A lot has happened, Im now a proud father!

My next project on the T5 is to convert to a twin tank vegetable oil system.  A lot of people have doubted whether it is possible on the PD fuel system but recently I found increasing evidence that it is possible and has been successfully done on a number of VW PD engines.


Heres a few links

Dieselveg conversion of T5 bus
www.dieselveg.com


I decided to use WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) and following the securing of a source of 40-60 litres per week I embarked on designing and building my own filtration system.

This website was a great inspiration

http://www.vegoilcar.co.uk/

These places were a great resource too

http://biopowered.co.uk/wiki/
http://vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/