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Offline Dickjotec

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Processing petrol contaminated oil
« on: March 26, 2013, 05:02:29 PM »
I have traded some oil with a wvo user and the oil I have has some residual petrol in it. As I want to make a batch up for the WE I would like to process some.

Has anyone processed petrol contaminated oil?

I assume it should process OK and if no one has any advice I will do a Dr Pepper.

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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 05:14:40 PM »
Taralec has.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 06:49:57 PM »
I don't think Alec is on here but I lifted his quote from a VOD thread

"It will process fine-but the diesel will play no part in the reaction ,and just pass thru into the bio as a co-solvent.You need to estimate how much diesel there is, and then base your chemicals on the veg oil only.
I have just made bio from wvo with petrol in it-it processed fine,but the petrol has passed thru into the bio-you can smell it"

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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 07:14:20 PM »
I've processed veg contaminated with petrol.  I gave it a good drying as the thinking was it would remove petrol, and then processed normally.  It stank of petrol throughout processing, but didn't seem to have a deleterious effect.

Might be better to process with no titration method rather than traditionally, but should be OK.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2013, 07:17:46 PM »
wouldnt an emertion heater explode it?

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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2013, 07:19:32 PM »
Not really, its no different to meth in that respect. May evaporate a bit but should be fine.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2013, 07:21:20 PM »
Thanks for that. Will use it in a batch on Sunday.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2013, 07:24:26 PM »
Not really, its no different to meth in that respect. May evaporate a bit but should be fine.

yes true i guess

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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2013, 07:27:03 PM »
i think you will be fine, but, if you wanted to remove it, id think a demethed glyc wash would take most of it out.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2013, 07:28:44 PM »
Why is that? Does it mix well with water?
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2013, 07:40:13 PM »
I processed a load of whites that were contaminated with kerosene (the dregs I got from a WVO user). They processed perfectly well. The Glyc stank of Kero but the bio only had a faint aroma of it so I suspect most ends up in the glyc
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2013, 07:51:38 PM »
Why is that? Does it mix well with water?

I just remember an idea i had for cleaning WMO with glyc.  Andy (glycerides) did a test and they did not seem to split.

Hence me thinking that mineral oil would be taken into the glyc, but the veg spit off, in the same way as most of the other crud ends up in the glyc.

Of course, there would be the consideration of an emulsion, promoted by the mineral oil, but, as above, people have done reactions with mineral contaminants before without issue.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2013, 08:19:19 PM »
I might do a sample test if Andy can spare me some of his precious glyc, I know he loathes to part with it! ;D
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2013, 10:52:29 PM »
I might do a sample test if Andy can spare me some of his precious glyc, I know he loathes to part with it! ;D

What are you wanting to test, Arash?
Julian and I proved it's no use with non-polar substances, mineral oil.

I have 30L sitting outside from the weekend. It was not demethed but was used to clean up the next 180L batch of wvo, so it's a bit on the solid side now.
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Re: Processing petrol contaminated oil
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2013, 01:06:31 PM »
I want to see if dry and demethed glyc will "wash out" the petrol or not.
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