Hello everyone. I need help. I am blending my fuel with kerosene,rug,diesel kleen. I let my oil settle in an open top water heater at 120 degrees f for a week, and then filter it through restarant filter paper and let it settle for another week in an insulated drum with a 250 watt infrared light over it. When I draw it off approx. 6 inches from bottom of drum it looks good. After I blend the fuels with it and run it through 3 filters it still looks good. When I let the fuel settle for a few days something is settling out. It looks cloudy and thick. Has anyone out there had this problem? You thoughts and comments are more than welcome. Jack

you are probably getting gelled oils dropping out because you are hot-filtering. if you cold-filter, that is filter at or below normal operating temps, then you will filter out all of the materials that are going to gel, or solidify, after you filter.
try heating the stuff that is dropping out of your blend (I dont recomend an open flame if you are working with potentially flammable materials), if it melts and becomes clear then it is good usable fuel in a heated system. if you dont have a heated system then this stuff will clog your filters.

If you are settling in a water heater while it is being heated, the convection currents from the heating element will prevent settling.

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Do you use kerosene AND rug? I would just use one or the other.

In my opinion the claims of water in oil is overrated. Do an experiment yourself. Put a sample of oil in a jar and pour water into it. What you will see is the oil settling on the bottom. IT DOES NOT MIX WITH THE OIL!
The only way to get water to mix with oil is to agitate it in. Take that same jar and shake it. Now you will have water mixed with oil. You will also notice it's a totally different color.
This is how you tell if your oil has water in it. YOU LOOK AT IT!
If it's cloudy it's contaminated with water. If it's clear IT"S NOT!

Also if your heating the oil so much your loosing any benefits of running oil as fuel. Think of all the coal that's being burned to supply all that electricity your wasting.

Also, as mentioned before, you want to filter cold. The colder the better.
A little biocide wouldn't hurt either.

Danny

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Another way to filter out the water is to use a Goldenrod water block filter. Cold oil and settling time make a great filter...Gravity is your friend.

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