anyone use an up flow processor

[ADV]

Anyone on here use a up flow processor to de water and help get the crap out of there WMO? If so how well dose it work?

 

[diezelcrazee]

My centrifuge supply drum is semi-upflow. Its set up as an upflow with the incoming pipe going all the way to the bottom, and a drain valve on the bottom, however I'm not taking my good oil from the top of the drum like a normal upflow. I have the outlet fitting welded in 1/3 up from the bottom.

To answer your question, it works pretty good, but I always like to let the oil settle in it for a few days before I start 'fuging it.

 

[kerrynzl]

Anyone on here use a up flow processor to de water and help get the crap out of there WMO? If so how well dose it work?

I do, best thing I ever built for processing oil.

Mine is made from propane bottles,
It is a closed loop system ,the funnel is an old compressor tank that I pump oil into [ with a return line, to prevent spills from overfilling ]

It has been running continously for 2 years now.[ I have 20 weeks of processed oil as a back-up ]

I've been blending WMO on-and-off for 12 years now, and for the last few years WMO has been my only source of fuel for 3-4 vehicles

 

[idiabuse]

I run the up flow also, works great, makes a batch quickly, after a few days of settling.

Javier

 

[diezelcrazee]

Since I posted the above on 8/31 I have made some changes. I got to noticing what looked like a little white "clabber" in my fuge catch barrel, so I switched my upflow from pulling out at 1/3 up from the bottom to pulling out at the top, thinking that I may be getting a little moisture and a full upflow would help. So now I am using the entire drum as an upflow, and I just run a small trickle into my supply drum, which is how most I have seen on the web are designed.

So......guess what? Now I notice that my 'fuge isn't taking out as much stuff!! Well duh, it took me a bit to figure it out, but it has to be that the upflow is taking a lot more of the crud out.

 

[idiabuse]

every 300 gallons or so depending on how dirty my wasteoil is I will call the truck over and sell him 50 gallons of my best contaminated upflow drum oil, I made a batch a while back that would just shut the engine off.
So It is not such a total loss. now what was the secret brew I mixed in there? dunno, I do have 20 gallons of it I saved, I may want to take a sample of it just to see what happened.

A clean out and a fresh start is alway's a good thing and 75 gallons of WMO to replace it is not hard to get...


Javier