mixmaster update 4/2/07

This week:

Heat and settle oil in reactors #1 and #2. These are dewatering tests.
Preheat oil in heater #2
Thursday: make a batch of fuel, approximately 40 gallons.
Saturday: Drain glycerin and wash. React second batch.

In the next few weeks:

Organize group tasked with building a heated settling tote. The  
methodology will be to use the BBQ tank to collect oil from  
greasemasters. We will pump from this tote, through a filter into the  
low-heat oil tank. We will pump from here, through a finer filter,  
into our oil heaters (converted water heaters) for heating and  
settling out the rest of the water and heating the oil for reaction.

Add plumbing to make reactor #2 ready to roll. We need to attach a  
pump, add a methoxide inlet, etc.

Finish wash vessel plumbing. Is the wash ready to go? Should we use  
the inline heater to heat it?

Water-proof the BBQ or replace it.