Andrew,
I'll be glad to help you out on the collection mechanism. However, I suggest that you do a little research on your own and talk to some of the local waste oil collectors in your region.
All waste oil, used motor oil... etc, is supposed to be collected and disposed of properly. This includes reblending, recycling, and re-refining of the used oil feedstock. If you ever utilize a Jiffy-Lube, you'll often find that they charge a disposal fee in addition to the oil change fee. This is the fee that is paid to waste oil collectors around the country for them to collect and remove the oil. These are established industries and consist of an estimated 600 or so large and small collectors. They in turn sell the used oil, at a small profit, to various clients, primarily those who reblend the oil with diesel in order to create #6 fuel oil, (Bunker oil) that is used in the majority of the merchant fleets in their ships boilers. Burning of this fuel is highly polluting to the air as it often contains higher than permissible levels of Lead and sulphur. Look at a ships smoke stack the next time you go the ocean and you'll see what I mean.
90% or so of the used oil generated in the US is already collected in established manners. It is not a very profitable industry however, but provides a means of reutilizing what would otherwise be another source of pollution.
The problem is even worse overseas where they have little of the oil collection infrastructure that we have in the US. They just collect their waste oil in whatever storage container they can find, and often dump or burn it outright. If they ship it, it usually entails considerable expense and little, if any, profitability.
That is why there is so much interest in GRNO small, semi-mobile, processors. They can bring the "mountain to Mohammed" rather than the other way around. Their will be no need to transport waste oil to mass collection sites. It will be processed locally back into usable fuel.
In regards, to whether diesel can be converted in Gasoline, I highly doubt it. Gasoline and other light end fuels require more heat and pressure in order to break down the hydrocarbon molecules. I'm not a chemical engineer but I don't believe it would be cost effective. Check out some research on what it takes to make gasoline and that should give the answers that you require.
Regards,
Ron |
