Diagram

Arrows show direction of fluid flow.

There is also a fuel filter between the Diesel tank and the Solenoid, same 3118. Then there's a "Secondary Fuel Filter" 3120 after the Solenoid before the Injector Pump. I didn't draw these in because they are part of the original fuel system. I only drew what we added to make a Grease system.

Hardcore

This grease system has never failed. People have abused the fuck out of it, mixed tons of veggie oil into the diesel tank by accident. Shut down the engine on veggie. Fucked everything up. And it still works just fine.

I would attribute this to the engine being a Detroit Diesel 671. She's a beast :)

Recommend Detroit Diesel 671, 871, 671 Jimmy, and Cummins engines.

Coolant Lines Again

Here's those same two lines as in the last photo. The one on the right is Hot Coolant straight out of the engine. See how it goes into the copper coil around the fuel filter? Then it comes out, and goes into the Brass T, and comes out the big black hose on the left. The red PEX Veggie Oil line also goes into that T, and goes inside the black hose on the left.
That's the hose from the tank. The solenoid is right next to the fuel filter. So, veggie oil comes from the tank, through the red PEX INSIDE the hose on the left.

It goes into the fuel filter, then comes out and goes into the solenoid. From the solenoid it goes straight into the injector pump, which is right there on the engine.

Coolant Lines

Here's where we tapped the coolant hose from the engine. The red lever is a shutoff valve, I guess it was for testing purposes in the beginning, but it's always left open now. That's the coolant line going to the copper coil around the filter.

The other black hose to the left, that's zip-tied to the coolant line, is the coolant hose with the red PEX inside it.

Solenoid

Here's one of the solenoids. Two men enter, one man leaves. A solenoid is just an electrically-controlled valve. Diesel and Veggie oil are both fed into it, but only one comes out.

Switches

Here's the switches on the dash. They control the Solenoids. The left one is: pump diesel or veggie to the engine. The right one is: which tank does the Return line go to.

Changing the Filter

Heated Filter

Here is a fuel fulter that the hot veggie oil goes through. We use NAPA 3118. It's important to filter your veggie oil :)

The red hose is the PEX fuel line with veggie oil running through it.

The foil is insulation covering the copper coil which wraps around the filter. Hot coolant flows through this coil and keeps the filter hot.

You can see the Brass T with both the red PEX line, and the copper pipe coolant line coming out of it. This T is the same as the one by the tank -- it's how you feed the red PEX inside the coolant hose. I'll draw a diagram to show it more precisely.

Hose within Hose

The red hose is the fuel line. Its made out of PEX.

If you look carefully, you will see the red hose going inside the black coolant hose through a brass T fitting. This is done with a compression fitting on the PEX. The idea is, you run the fuel line INSIDE the Hot Coolant line so the fuel gets hot as it travels towards the engine.

Here is the veggie oil tank. The thing on the left with the red hose coming out of it is the Arctic Fox. That sticks down into the tank. As you can see, there are also two black hoses connected to the Fox. These are Coolant in and out of the device. That's how it heats the veggie oil in the tank.

The white pipe coming up out of the tank is the fill pipe from the gas cap.

The small black hose that connects on the right is the Return from the engine.

--- BRIEF INTERLUDE: GREASE CONVERSION ---

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

Italian Cold Fusion Documentary - Report 41

Report 41

Please see the part about Dominico Cirillo, about halfway through. His research is most closely related to what we are doing here.

Theoretical Background - Kanarev, Mizuno

COLD FUSION BY PLASMA ELECTROLYSIS OF WATER

Phillip M. Kanarev
Tadahiko Mizuno

Completed Cell

Here is the assembled cell. You can see the Positive Electrode with its Stainless Wire connector coming out the top. At the bottom, the Tungsten rod comes in through a 1/8 " Compression Fitting. (I drilled and tapped the housing).

Negative Electrode is a 3/32" Tungsten TIG Welding Electrode. Available from your local welding shop.

Plasma will form around the Tungsten.

Electrolyte

K2CO3
Potassium Carbonate

This is the Electrolyte we will use with Distilled Water.

Molar Concentration I will post shortly.

Let's Go!

Variable DC Power Supply 0 - 1000 V

This is a home-made AC-to-DC power supply to drive the electrolysis cell. The big thing at the bottom is a Variac I found, then there's a step-up transformer on the right, and a capacitor array which acts as a smoothing capacitor. Capacitor array is 3,000 uF rated at 400 V DC. Transformer is 120 to 12 V wired up backwards. Hopefully it won't blow out. Variac is 0 - 135 V. Oh and of course there's a full-wave rectifier in there.

I'll post a schematic soon.

Current Density

Negative electrode is a Tungsten TIG welding electrode, with most of it wrapped in Teflon Tape. Only the tip is exposed. Positive Electrode is a piece of Stainless Steel perforated sheet metal, about 3 x 4 inches.

The Plasma forms around the Negative electrode. The Negative electrode is also where the Hydrogen bubbles up in conventional electrolysis (Oxygen on the Positive).

The difference in surface area of the two electrodes causes there to be a higher Current Density on the Negative one.

I think :)