President Bush on biodiesel.
"Biodiesel is one of our
nation's most promising alternative fuel sources, and by developing
biodiesel you're making this country less dependent on foreign oil."
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Welcome to Okie Biofuel
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Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Are you interested in making your own biodiesel?
You’ve come to the right place! On this site, you’ll find all the information you will need to make your own batch. There are three basic needs to produce Biodiesel;
1. A source of Oil, and few other chemicals.
2. A processing station. Home built (preferably) or purchased.
3. A desire for cheaper, cleaner burning diesel fuel
Biodiesel can play a key roll in reducing your fuel
costs. It also can dramatically lessen your diesel burning fleets environmental
impact by reducing harmful tailpipe emissions. If your entity produces
it’s own supply of waste oil there is even more potential for
cost savings by recycling this oil into a viable alternative fuel to
power your diesel powered vehicles and equipment.
Journal Record Award Winners!!
"2008 Innovators of the Year"
Carl Shortt(left), Guy Ellis(center) and Tom Groshong(right)
This is the OkieBiofuel team.
Biodiesel News provided by the
National Biodiesel Board, www.biodiesel.org
Some brief history.......
First off, you will see many references to the University of Central Oklahoma and their biodiesel program.
This site is in no way indorsed by the University of Central Oklahoma or by it's staff or management.
It is solely owned by the three certified mechanics that happen to be employed by the University and who also run it's biodiesel program.
This project was the brain child of Guy Ellis. Guy is a Mechanic in the Motor Pool at the University of Central Oklahoma. He also happens to own a rather large acreage here in the state where he uses some heavy equipment to cut hay. During the process of trying to lower his overhead by reducing his fuel costs, he discovered some information on the internet about Biodiesel.
This opened his eyes to the whole new world of Bio-fuels. He read that the process was not difficult to convert new or used cooking oil into a viable alternative fuel for the diesel engine. He also read of the cost reduction and tail pipe emission reduction benefits. He had an idea!
Guy presented the idea of producing this Biodiesel here at the university to Tom Groshong, the Motor Pool Supervisor. He explained that we can save money, reduce emissions and fit in with the “Green University” theme.
Tom received this idea with open arms and we were off and running!
Guy explained the process to Carl Shortt who also agreed that is was a great idea.
We did some research and discovered that the ultra low sulfur diesel was just about 1 year away from hitting the open market. We read in several reports that this had the potential to cause damage to some older diesel system. We also found out the Biodiesel has a significantly greater ability to lubricate key fuel system components. This stuff was the answer we were looking for! It had the whole package, lowered emissions, reduction of wear in our older vehicles and equipment that may not be compatible with ULSD, recycling a waste product, lower fuel costs, no need for any vehicle conversion or retrofit, qualified as an alternative fuel, It was perfect!
Tom took our idea to Mr. Mark Rodolf, our Director and to Mr. Robert Nall, asst. Vice President. They were thrilled to see how well this fit into the universities plans for the future and gave us their support and endorsement.
Not long after that, we were making our first small batches.
After several small batches we proved to ourselves that we could do this! We started working on a larger “batch maker”.
For more information, see the "Reactor" section of this site.