Week 3


Towards the end of week 3 our group decided we would all look at the different aspects of water washing techniques and then choose which aspects we liked the best and try to make a hybridized method.  The aspects we will take account are:
  1. Cost efficiency of materials to build system (dollars)
  2. Speed of total purification process (hours)
  3. Water usage efficiency (liters)
  4. Electrical energy put into system (joules)
  5. Automation of system (number of manual tasks involved)
  6. simplicity of system (amount of materials needed to build)
  7. Safety (amount of safety concerns)
  8. Emulsion (volume created in liters)
Several different types of washing will be analyzed, namely traditional water washing, bubble washing, pump washing, mist washing, water washing using recycled water, dry wash using ION exchange resins, dry wash using magnesol (vince), soda keg resin towers, dry wash with sawdust (vince), air washing (vince), and the GL method.  After each parameter of each type of washing is analyzed, the most efficient water washing process will be used to design a new system that will be the most efficient over all ( by maximizing the parameters) for the water washing proceses listed above.  After the new efficient design is built, it will be tested to determine if the planned efficiency of the new system is what was expected.  If so, the new design will be compared to standard method of purifying biodiesel that is currently in use in biodiesel production.

http://www.make-biodiesel.org/Waterless-Washing/dry-wash-biodiesel-with-magnesol.html