NEWS:

• A new biodiesel enterprise in Widnes has set up a TT700A with the enhanced processing features talked about on this VIDEO. Basically Batches are produced one after another every two hours, and pumped into auxiliary settling tanks for settling out the glycerol. Several thousand litres of crude biodiesel are produced each day and left to stand for 3 days, after which they are reintroduced into the main machine for purification. Total capacity for the TT700A is increased to about 1,200 litres per day (8 hours work) rather than 665 litres in 5 days using the machine as a standalone unit (EN14214 achieved).

• Fuller Fuels built and plumbed in the distribution pipe work themselves, saving an estimated £3,000 on labour costs and soon got to grips with the electric threading machine even though they had never done this sort of work before. There was only one leak on the several hundred joints!

•  Goat industries has launched a new service, telephone consultancy, which enables amateurs and professional to get useful information on vegetable oil and biodiesel.

•  The heat exchanger based conversion kits have now been replaced with a much simpler system in the belief that heating the oil is not as essential as originally thought. We now believe that heating of the oil is unnecessary, as long as it is liquid, and advocate either using the oil direct in the fuel tank or using a two tank system with the switch over valves that we supply. The theory is that the temperature of the fuel leaving the injector pump is solely dependant on the temperature of the injector pump itself, so that when the engine is hot the heat conducted from the engine to the pump warms up the oil that passes through it. The fuel itself passes so slowly through the pump that it does not cool the pump down even if it is cold itself. 

  Goat industries is mostly involved in the production of machinery for producing biodiesel, which is commonly blended with normal diesel at a ratio of 5%. Higher blends can be used and this is dependent on the ambient temperatures and the type of vehicle. As with using relatively unrefined vegetable oil, care is needed using biodiesel as it is not, at present, as 'high tech' as the ultra low sulphur diesel hat we buy at the pump. The petrochemical industry has spent millions and millions of pounds/dollars on research into diesel fuel and they have managed to turn diesel that used to freeze in the fuel tank into the high tech product that we know take for granted. As relatively small scale operations we are still able to undertake useful research and with the power of the internet can network with each other relatively easily. Goat industries is keen to promote the free exchange of information by hosting discussion boards and databases for the benefit of fellow enthusiasts and the planet in general. We are, however, a normal profit making company and at present we sponsor this web site through biodiesel plant production contracts.