I use a secondary plastic tank - 100 gallons in my truck.  It is filled with B100.  I used Stainless steel track pipe to run a heat loop inside the tank.  I tie a heater hose into where the coolant goes into my heater core with a tee.  Then that hose is routed to my tank where there is a ball valve for heat control.  The track pipe takes over in the tank and transfers the heat to the tank.  When I exit my tank the hose follows the fuel line to the filter.  then back to the tee in the heater line leaving my heater core.

When its cold out I start the truck on treated #2 and warm it up. when the tank temp hits 60 F I then switch to B-100.

My tank is in an insulated box so the fuel can get almost as warm as the coolant on a cold day.

 This also works Super for drying the fuel after a fresh batch has been made in the summer as the hot bio will separate faster and the water can be drained off. 

Best of luck!

Hi Jim

here's Ontario style I use a steel tank and a split exhaust one goes to a stack the other goes through the centre of the grease tank and then to a stack the tank has a thermal switch that closes the tank stack with a solonoid when the tank is up to temperature the tank outlet is higher than the heat exchanger so it can't flash.

I am really amazed at the different ways people inovate stuff. from the piture on your site, you operate in some Far North stuff.  I wonder why truck manufactures wouldnt build like this to start with?

Jim

Hi Jim

Ya, me too I'm kind of a lone wolf but the more people I meet through these forums the more docile I get.I hope that's a good thing. Anyway I'm still not giving everything away just yet till I find out just where it is I'm going (I've always made my living in the trades and worked about 18 hours a day but now at 45 I'm paying for it. Had to sell my truck because of chronic fatique syndrome and sleep apnea and went back to diesel mechanics(now cement floor has given me arthritus so bad sometimes I can hardly lift my arm but I don't believe in disability pensions if you can still work so I'm going to try and make a living in biodiesel.) WOW what a pityfull blurb! ... When I first started this I decided to go my own way, talked to a few experienced people and they all said what I was going to do wouldn't work so I did it anyway put 20,000 gallons of grease60%lard through my pete (all in northern Ontario) and lots of it to a remote minesite 120 miles north of Pickle Lake and people are still telling me you can't run b100 in the winter. Oh well people like us know you can and It's their loss. As far as vehicles go I'm starting to wonder if the doomsayers are right and the oil companies are in bed with the car manufacturing companies(how can you explain a PM miliage test of all the new trucks average the same as my 82 chev pickup. With all our "modern technology" somehow I think they should be able to do better than that??!!!!  Great talking to you, Keep "buildin" 

"The big advantage of not being smart is that you can invent something good by accident"

       Greasefreeze

   

Hey Greasefreeze talked to Minister of Justice about Bio diesel on saturday.

If your asking whats he have to do with it (my local MP) anyways he was interested in bio diesel but heard that it had cold weather problems.

Told him about you and said do not listen to the nay sayers for they speak of which they do not know.

Showed him the 100%ethanol car he also said he was under the impression that this was not possible.

So with a little leg work you might be able to make a little coin where you will be able to take it easy and cut your hours down to 60 or 70 a week, I know thats part time for you but sometimes you have to share the work. (when I delivered ice I put 120 hours week  every summer 3 or 4 months in a row (only way to make a buck) so when people tell me they work 50 - 60 hours I tell them thats part time work. Always make myself laugh on the abuse I put myself through to put food on the table for the family.

Check with you later

Verbatum

Tried the govt. thing last winter they had it all set up to fly people in from Lower 48, Alaska, NWT, BC, and Ireland to watch me pull 140,000 lbs for DND. When they found out it wasn't a patented process and I didn't have a Bsc. they shut it all down. Juat goes to show Even though you can't burn a 400 page theoretical feasabiliy study it's worth a hell of a lot more money than someone who can actually design, build, operate,break, and repair something. 

This is a really good site, nice to talk about ideas quite freely and be actually encouraged by the results!

Keep it up

I really like the idea of using either exhaust gases or using coolant heat to keep Bio warm...interesting for sure seeing as I live in Alberta and it gets a tad cold here too.!!  Gonna keep these idea's in mind.

rgds,

 

stk

This post from InfoPop (mine)  http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/419605551/m/6081037291" describes what I believe to be the simplest and most effective method of cold weather biodiesel use. It is adaptable to any size vehicle and thematerials are readily available or the system is easily adaptable to whatever materials are at hand.