Basicaly old used cooking oil is put in a vessel & warmed up, transfered to a 2nd tank, a catalyst is added... Methanol & Potassium Hydroxide it cooks for abit & seperates out the waste is drained off then it's washed 3 times, settles & again the water is drained off, then its left to circulate around to 'Dry' it out....An hour or so later you have BioFule...which is pummped into a holding tank where its 'pollished' goes through muliple fillters down to 1 micron to make sure theres is no crap in it... Finaly pummed in to a holding tank which then feed generators, which make Lecky which they sell to the grid. Simples
So lots of standing around today basicaly doing nothing. Same again tommrow & prob the next few days before we will be able to get more hands on.
Plan A is to during the next week or so we will be doing the work with one of the incumbant techs looking over our shoulders.
3 of us started today...1 of them disapeared over lunch never to be seen again ! Bit rude he didn't even tell anyone he was going just drove off.
I or course am away next week to sunny Wales so when I get back the training for the advanced role they have planned for me will start.
Current hours are 8 till 4, its just 9.4 miles but there is a back road which cuts a bit out but it's not a nice road, terrible surface, loads of gravel & the tractor coming round the cornner taking up almost all the road kinda put's me off using it ....
