Biodiesel Essentials class
January 26-27, 2008
Brookville, FL, just outside of Tampa , FL
hosted by the moderator of the Florida Biodiesel list:
www.groups.yahoo.com/floridabiodiesel
Class registration fee:
Early-bird discount on registration: $108 until December 15th
$120 from Dec 16 to Jan 11th
$130 after Jan 12th, to discourage last-minute registrations
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Register at
www.girlmark.com/tour
You may build an Appleseed processor at this class if you buy a kit from
b100supply.com
This class teaches you everything you need to know to make high quality
biodiesel, use your system more efficiently, and make informed decisions
about shortcuts. We cover the following topics, but also tailor the
class to more advanced students or different questions, as appropriate.
There are extensive hands-on lab portions in the class during which you
will get individual attention to make sure you understand the topics
fully and can do the techniques on your own at home.
Some topics:
biodiesel/SVO/solvent thinning (ie DSE etc) options and history,
biodiesel chemistry, testing oil (titration and water testing), making
test batches, an overview of equipment, a chance to build your own
reactor at the end of Sunday's class, quality control factors, quality
testing, mistwashing and other water washing options, breaking emulsion,
two-stage base biodiesel, waste water and glycerine disposal, reuse,
waterless soap removal with Amberlite and GL's process, common pitfalls,
hands-on experience recovering from failed batches and emulsion, safety
Biodiesel Equipment intensive:
Monday, January 28
same location
$45 regardless of date
Register at http://www.girlmark.com/tour
Optional: you may build equipment to take home (you can also attend if
you don't build your own), at this class
Equipment options include: methanol recovery related parts, motorized
methoxide mixer, dry tank, heatable wash tank, Turk burner, improved
Appleseed processor.
If you wish to buy your own parts, there is an additional fee for parts
costs which will be posted to this thread later in November
For a rough idea of the costs and type of equipment, please see this
thread from a previous event. You will get hands-on time building our
equipment (for our host's farm system) even if you don't want to buy
your own parts:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=193999
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Maria 'girl Mark' Alovert is a biodiesel production technology
consultant. She is the author of The Biodiesel Homebrew Guide, a manual
on biodiesel production, the founder of the community-written biodiesel
homebrewing tutorial site www.biodieselcommunity.org and the inventor of
the Appleseed Processor, an 'open source' design now used by thousands
of people around the world to produce biodiesel on a 'homebrew' scale.
She has been involved in home-scale biodiesel technology development
since 2000.
