Biodiesel
Come and learn how to make your own biodiesel and build your own small scale biodiesel production unit. Red Pig Farm has been producing its own biodiesel for over 5 years with a 300l capacity processing unit. We’ll also show you how to make the most of the waste glycerine.
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Workshop 1: 6th August, 2016
Workshop 2: 13th August, 2016 |
Red Pig Farm |
Fee covers tuition, materials, & food
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Who is this course for?
Anyone who has wondered if they could save money and use of fossil fuels by making their own diesel from waste oil. The process is quite simple and may even jog your memory of chemistry from your school days.
What will the Biodiesel course cover?
- sourcing materials
- pretreatments of oil
- complete demonstration of transesterification process
- a thorough understanding of the dangers of methoxide and other health and safety aspects
- how to make use of glycerine
Learning methods and outcomes
This is a day long workshop. We will go through the theory and chemistry of the process after which we’ll make a batch of diesel. After becoming familiar with the equipment we provide you with an overview of how to build a similiar unit yourself.
Course Instructor
James Skrivez
Venue/Accommodation
Red Pig Farm is a 70 acre woodland on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons. Nestled below the iron age hill fort of Garn Goch in the foothills of the Black Mountain it offers a secluded and peaceful location for our course participants to learn and explore the potential of applying agroecology within a co-sufficient community settlement.
Accommodation is available for camping around our guest lodge, an A-frame wooden cabin with kitchen and dining/living space. We have running filtered spring water throughout the site, compost toilets and wash facilities.
We will email directions when you sign up to a course.
Fees
We endeavour to make our courses and events affordable to all. Unfortunately, we do not receive any external funding and rely on large amounts of voluntary input. Concessions are available for pensioners, unemployed and full-time students only.
See the cancellations and refunds policy.
Booking and Paying for your place
To book a place on the course contact us for a booking form. Please note that we ask for a 25% non refundable deposit to secure your place on the course.
