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Oil Feedstock => Oil coarse filtering, settling, drying and storage => Topic started by: tuftey on October 30, 2011, 07:54:24 PM

Title: what do you call whites
Post by: tuftey on October 30, 2011, 07:54:24 PM

dont say oil thats white we get a lot of oil thats oil then when you take the top of it is like murky oil we produce good bio out of this

is that what you lot call whites

Title: Re: what do you call whites
Post by: K.H on October 30, 2011, 09:01:35 PM

Yes thats what i call whites :)

Title: Re: what do you call whites
Post by: Tony on October 31, 2011, 09:00:27 AM

I hate the stuff, wet oil and fats don't go through the strainer on my footer valve :(  Really need to modify my oil pre-processing to be able to take solids and whites.  I'm a bit lucky in that the vast majority of my oil is liquid.

Title: Re: what do you call whites
Post by: tuftey on October 31, 2011, 06:43:18 PM

im asking due to other people calling solids whits as well if i asked somewere else i would of been shot down by someone

Title: Re: what do you call whites
Post by: Tony on November 01, 2011, 01:24:27 PM

Solids I guess would be fats and lard.

The whites I'm talking about are the sickening sloppy stuff that goes clearish when heated.  From what I've seen, they can contain an awful lot of water too (I've seen 1/3 water by volume!)