Spent all day rebuilding the heart of the veggie oil system – the valve assembly. It was removed 1 mile from this very spot, 1 year ago. However, if things continue to go as smoothly as they did today, we’ll be running on waste grease by tomorrow afternoon.
Veggie Fuel Schematic
I will post pictures of the process soon. But for the moment, here are an overall schematic of the system and a detail of the valve assembly I drew today. The design was made by Aaron and some of his friends out at SPAZ. It is a pretty complex system with on the order of 25 connections, and this does not include the heating system – so it’s not that surprising that we had some problems on the first try.
Oh, and thanks to Veerle for the great video tutorial on how to draw 3D pipes in Illustrator.
[...] first two photos here are the valve assembly that I diagrammed in an earlier post. In the first picture you see how I’ve disassembled it, in the second you see it put [...]