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Home Scale Biodiesel Production

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Learn how to make biodiesel from used cooking oil that can be used to fuel you diesel engines and home heating oil burner. From construction of the processing equipment, to collecting the oil from restaurants, to the chemistry of the reactions.

Home Scale Biodiesel Production - Maker Faire Philadelphia 2024

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Ben Jorritsma

Ben Jorritsma has been making biodiesel for the past ten years to fuel the tractors, trucks, oil heaters, and various other pieces of equipment of his family farm in Lafayette, NJ.

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