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Centrifuges will separate oil from algae, but not nearly all of it, and it will be backwards in energy production relative to the amount of oil you would get out. Keep in mind, you gotta grow a lot of algae, and get every drop of oil for this to be worth the effort haha

I keep running tests with my processing rig. I did learn the power of the capacitors that are in my power supply... ouch... haha I really won't know what works best until I get to talk to the science folk at school and I need to get it under a micro scope so I can see the effects the processor...

I got the roof off the shed to allow light in, have tarps ready to cover it incase of bad weather. Haha **** tank still leaks like a sieve so I bring the water level up once a week or so. I finally got some semi professional help with wiring up my processing rig. Keep in mind, I'm the type...

Well I didn feel like doing work in English class so here we go, I will take a few better ones when i get home Also, even though its large and square and holds 1800 gallons of water, the algae does get the light it needs, I have a few tricks for that one! The tank took all of a few days to...

One guy who did an experiment in a 300 gallon trough got a 10:1 ratio per week. Meaning he had 30 gallons of algae oil in a week. I can only hope for something similar! Scalabilty for me means moving up to 20-30 thousand gallon tanks so i am excited!!

Here's a bit of an update. The tank is all rebuilt, 1200 gallons of water in it right now, about 30 gallons of algae and now I wait! It would have 1800 gallons of water but I have no faith in my construction! I'll post a picture of it soon, even though I have said that many times already

well the two algae strains have their differences. One is a max of 5 microns, one is 50 microns. the 50 micron one has flagella which are how they move around in liquid, the small one has no flagella but it does like to latch on to the large one for movement and they feed each other...

ok, the tank is back in place. This is the hokiest thing i have ever built, and that showed when it burst.... so its a little less hokey now!! just gotta water proof it again then refill, the algae is ready to go from its small 30 gallons up to the full 1800 gallon containers once its ready...

Well i fixed the leaks, then proceeded to put the last 700 gallons of water in. Well when we built it, we used heavy duty brackets, lag screws, washers, all the good stuff.... appearently on one corner, we forgot to reinforce the part that the brackets bolted to... well lets just say, if i had...

Another recommendation for if you decide to produce your own Bio diesel, is to research dry washing. Everything I have seen has shown that it just produces a top notch quality product, the towers can be made by an afternoon date with a metal roller and a welder. An update on my algae tank, I...

if a few miracles occur and maybe a pig flies over head I could be in production. I would love to be selling fuel by august but I appear to be a lazy bum and don't follow my own deadlines as well as I need to I'm working on it! haha

no problem, earlier in this thread i linked journey to forever, thats where i got started in biodiesel and subsequently algae. there are many companies that sell biodiesel makers and such but beware, they are mostly over priced and some dont even have a wet or dry washing stage at all. its...

The B stands for bio diesel, not ethanol lol there could have been some mis communication over the phone or such but try and get a good location to buy b20, it will do good things for you. Of course from the green aspect the only real way to help is to go b100 but it isnt very cost effective...

well those many estimates of anywhere from 1000-15000 are with large ponds and many types of algae. No one has released estimates with algae that can be grown in large tanks, so I'm working on it!!

and hopefully even much further of set by cost! do you have b5 or b20 where you live? thats a first step to keep your engine lubed

Yes sir, I went to school out in rice country and live just a bit north of Sacramento. And the savings over petrol that im aiming for might make you a wealthy man in doing that :beer:

got those too, but naw that was originally from eve online for me, internet spaceships and all haha

andy - no, protip coming from me is from playing video games haha IROC i personally dont have experience in using WVO but my biodiesel guy can talk, and talk, and talk some more. He says everything may be good at first, but unless you heat your fuel lines and tank to about 180 it will just gum...

haha well I went and hopped in today, trust me, 1100 gallons of hose water inside a tank in a shed does not get very warm..... i think after 30 seconds i just lost all feeling and it wasnt too bad but oh god did that suck I have an air bubble under the floor that allowed water in one of the...

I dont have much experience with harvest methods other than filters, it couldnt hurt to try, i know some companies rely on centrifuges to harvest but i think it also depends on the algae type killing the algae wont matter because your processing will kill it, just be nice to it during the...