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The new plant

aditec — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:20:45 -0500

by: aditec

Description: The new plant under construction

The distillation column

aditec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:01:34 -0500

by: aditec

Description: Inside view of the distillation column

Other portion of the test plant

aditec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:52:15 -0500

by: aditec

Description: Condenser, chemical refining and fractionate distillation of the thermal cracked raw oil.

Small scale test plant

aditec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:49:09 -0500

by: aditec

Description: The waste engine oil goes into the reactor to carry out the thermal cracking process.

The few diesel fuel samples

aditec — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:45:30 -0500

by: aditec

Description: The first light yellowish oil on the most left is commercial #2 diesel fuel, while the rest are samples of diesel fuel derived from the distillation of waste engine oil.

bubble plate #1 welded in

thelakerat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:55:43 -0500

by: thelakerat

Description: the first of 3 bubble trays welded in

pall rings loaded

thelakerat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:43:44 -0500

by: thelakerat

inside of tower

thelakerat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:39:00 -0500

by: thelakerat

Description: My tower is an old stand up style air drier so it allready has a stainless steel mesh in the bottom to diffuse the air. This will work to diffuse my steam and also to hold my pall rings up.

bubble tray 1

thelakerat — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:31:31 -0500

by: thelakerat

Description: This is a pic of the beginning of my bubble tray. the caps are small ravioli cans and there is a 1.5" tall tube off of the plate that the cap will go over.

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Diesel Processor Version 3.0

Oilguy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:25:22 -0500

by: Oilguy

Description: Horizontal Distillation column idea

Processor picture #2

butterbean — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:50:55 -0500

by: butterbean

Description: A different view

My processor

butterbean — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:47:46 -0500

by: butterbean

Description: Hope this helps some one...it isn't pretty but it works.

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Side view

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:07:09 -0500

by: Oilguy

First version of the vapor jet >> Too small and vapor locked

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:06:09 -0500

by: Oilguy

First heating grid for boiling the oil... too small

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:04:22 -0500

by: Oilguy

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Staring the furnace

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:03:01 -0500

by: Oilguy

another view of tower

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:02:14 -0500

by: Oilguy

inside bottom of tower

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:00:28 -0500

by: Oilguy

Drilled hole in the bottom

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:58:46 -0500

by: Oilguy

Cut Tank

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:58:03 -0500

by: Oilguy

Building the condensing tower

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:57:23 -0500

by: Oilguy

Description: Step 1 : get tank

Here is the drawings for my lastest Version (2.3)

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:56:03 -0500

by: Oilguy

Here is the Layout of version 1.0

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:54:23 -0500

by: Oilguy

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Inside version 2.0 of the condensor.

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:53:31 -0500

by: Oilguy

Second condensor ... Melted bucket and boiled the water out... Very excitin

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:52:45 -0500

by: Oilguy

First condensor... Way toooo small and wrong solder

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:51:43 -0500

by: Oilguy

Wrapped with sheet metal to hold vermiculite for insulation.

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:50:45 -0500

by: Oilguy

Chimney on Version 1

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:49:37 -0500

by: Oilguy

Another View of first plant

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:48:52 -0500

by: Oilguy

Version 1.0 again

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:47:52 -0500

by: Oilguy

Version 1.0

Oilguy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:46:36 -0500

by: Oilguy

Description: Here is my first processor... This thing is HUGE... Needed to be about 1/4 the size... but oh well... I live in Texas... We don't do small!

The Shaferlabs Processor

ShaferLabs — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:28:58 -0500

by: ShaferLabs

Description: This is the state of things as of december 2007. A lot has happened since then

OC3

ShaferLabs — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:25:55 -0500

by: ShaferLabs

Description: 3D drawing of my design. Just for fun! You can see (left to right) Crude oil tank, blower, furnace and cracking tower, condensing tube and tank, sediment and charcoal filters, and finished fuel storage.