Feul Cleaning - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

dmetalmiki · 05-19-2011, 19:21

Well having watched with interest other members sorting out alternative feul options and having travelled a round trip of some 200 miles to collect 14 , 50 gallon drums of contamm which turned out to be 7 drums of water!!! (not even wmo or hydraulic fluid)..So I was driven to resolve my contaminated contam (if you get my drift)..as the remaining drums had at least 25% water..some wmo and some mixed. Right! so I purchase a bag filter set up plus a centrifuge set up.
I am trying out the one micron filter cartridge type first. Using gravity feed only Seems too slow and blocks easily at one micron. But I will leave it dripping overnight and check (and report) tommorow.
Then I will go to 10 micron reducing to 5 micron. Gravity feed. and if unsatisfactory, I will pump it through.
Then I f unsatisfactory, I will centifuge it , and report back.
Here are some pictures of the initial gravity feed set up.

cbvet · 05-19-2011, 23:14

For me, gravity was just way too slow.
I make simple adapter plugs that I can clamp the bags onto, glue a piece of pipe into them, then run a piece of cheap sump-pump hose from my barrel to the filter. I maintain just enough pressure to keep the filter bags "filled out, so no danger of rupturing a filter. Filtered oil then goes into a clean drum.
I use a drop tube screwed into the large bung on a 55 gallon drum and less than a pound of air pressure put into the small hole in the drum. (Think aerosol can.)
55 Gallons of mixed used oil will filter in about 1 hour this way, while you're working on other things.
So if you filter in 3 stages like I do, it takes about 4 hours to do 55 gallons. But again, once it's hooked up you can walk away for an hour.

nk14zp · 05-20-2011, 11:21

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Originally Posted by dmetalmiki

Well having watched with interest other members sorting out alternative feul options and having travelled a round trip of some 200 miles to collect 14 , 50 gallon drums of contamm which turned out to be 7 drums of water!!! (not even wmo or hydraulic fluid)..So I was driven to resolve my contaminated contam (if you get my drift)..as the remaining drums had at least 25% water..some wmo and some mixed. Right! so I purchase a bag filter set up plus a centrifuge set up.
I am trying out the one micron filter cartridge type first. Using gravity feed only Seems too slow and blocks easily at one micron. But I will leave it dripping overnight and check (and report) tommorow.
Then I will go to 10 micron reducing to 5 micron. Gravity feed. and if unsatisfactory, I will pump it through.
Then I f unsatisfactory, I will centifuge it , and report back.
Here are some pictures of the initial gravity feed set up.

I would start with the 10 micron first then 5 then 1. If you wanted you could make a stand to hold all three and filter it in one pass.

randini · 05-20-2011, 16:24

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Originally Posted by nk14zp

I would start with the 10 micron first then 5 then 1. If you wanted you could make a stand to hold all three and filter it in one pass.

Thats what I do, or even 4 filters. I have a 50,20,5 and 1 micron. In that order. It is not that much more time than a single filter. And it done in one pass. Unless the 1 micron is clogging, then it takes days to filter, so use clean bags!

eric_banks32 · 05-29-2011, 08:18

Run it throught the centrifuge then through the filters. ten micron and then the five. Anything smaller than 5 is just a waste of time and money in my opinion. I work at a large biodiesel plant and that is how we are set up. It works well.