Who sells filters?

[neisel]

I binned the old filter on my processor a few days ago & need to find a new one. As I understand it this filter is as much about removing traces of water as it is removing small particles. The filter housing is about 6" in diameter & 9½" long. It's used for spray drying finished BD & is in line before the polish pot when decanting.

Does anyone on here sell something that would fit or can you recommend a seller?

TIA.

[whatarascal]

nathanrobo

[Rotary-Motion]

nathanrobo

he sell spun wound ones too?

[nathanrobo]

Mate

I'd get shot of the inline filter to the spray bar.  After washing and drying, settle for a few days, run any dirt that settles out and then dispense via the polish pot, which is at 3mu

The jumbo filter quickly becomes punched through as doesn't remove any water at all.  The final polishing / drying pot will remove solids and if your fuel is reasonably dry, will reduce the water ppms to <500.  Your challenge is knowing when the SDFC filter is saturated.  I do the 5 deg. clear test, then fuge until the vapours stop coming out of the fuge's discharge, then dispense via the polishing pot to reduce moisture further.  Obviously if you put wet fuel through the pot you'll nail the filter straight away.

[Rotary-Motion]

take that as a no then lol

[neisel]

Mate

I'd get shot of the inline filter to the spray bar.  After washing and drying, settle for a few days, run any dirt that settles out and then dispense via the polish pot, which is at 3mu

The jumbo filter quickly becomes punched through as doesn't remove any water at all.  The final polishing / drying pot will remove solids and if your fuel is reasonably dry, will reduce the water ppms to <500.  Your challenge is knowing when the SDFC filter is saturated.  I do the 5 deg. clear test, then fuge until the vapours stop coming out of the fuge's discharge, then dispense via the polishing pot to reduce moisture further.  Obviously if you put wet fuel through the pot you'll nail the filter straight away.

Nathan,

The problem is that without a filter in the housing the BD is being pumped out at far too high a pressure to use the drying spray bar properly. I mean it was coming out ridiculously hard, bouncing off the walls of the processor & out the top. Whether the filter does anything in the way of filtering or not is actually immaterial!

[nathanrobo]

Could you adjust the lever ball valves to reduce pressure?  That'd meant that some is going through the diffuser used during the reaction leaving the right pressure at the SB.

Oh and no, I don't keep sediment filters.

[neisel]

Nathan,

Did that to dry this latest batch but it's an unsatisfactory compromise. Even with ball valves shut down considerably the amount of spay etc coming out the top meant I could only open the lid about 2 inches instead of the normal wide open position. Even then there was too much crap in the air. Slow to dry & messy.;l

I know bugger all about filters but looking on ebay I came upon this, available in 1, 5 or 10 microns - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-4-5-Jumbo-PP-Sediment-Water-Filter-Cartridge-5-Micron-Well-Water-Spring-/300888137925?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item460e54a0c5

Is that what I need?

[nathanrobo]

Mate

That'll do!  Maybe as a winter project you could look at sealing the lid of your processor (bit of viton rubber seal and some Ford Capri bonnet clips).  Then you could mount an extractor fan with a duct to a container to catch bio and water vapour. 

A mate of mine gave me a fan from a boiler - magneto drive (or something like that), so safe in gases etc. Works an absolute treat!

[neisel]

Picking the forum's brains once again, could peeps tell me the difference between this filter -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-4-5-Jumbo-PP-Sediment-Water-Filter-Cartridge-5-Micron-Well-Water-Spring-/300888137925?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item460e54a0c5 

and this wound string filter which mentions biodiesel applications in the blurb -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x4-5-Jumbo-Wound-Filter-Cartridge-5-Micron-Hard-Well-Water-WVO-Biodiesel-/300822790930?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item460a6f8312

This filter is used only at the very last stage when the finished BD is being pumped out of the processor, through a polish pot & into jerry cans.

I can get 5 or 1 micron. I'm thinking 5 (or if they had it, 10) would do the trick. What would the panel recommend?

TIA