Fuel centrifuge 1

[enginesrus]

Where to find small scale affordable units? Something a hobbyist can afford. Under 500. or so.

 

[VEBill]

A lab centrifuge for separating fluids for testing in a lab?

Look at the famous $1 Malaria Test. The centrifuge part is $0.20.

https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/1...evelop-20-cent-hand-powered-blood-centrifuge/

More practically, try eBay.

 

[moon161]

About 10 years back, when the price of diesel was high and people were running diesel cars on fryer oil, people would use a motor driven or jet driven centrifuge to clean the fryer oil. Names i remember are wvo designs or simple centrifuge. In the case of the jet driven CF, people would feed it i think with junkyard power steering pumps.

 

[TugboatEng]

Are you trying to remove water, particles, or both? If just particles, I think adapting an on engine oil centrifuge is going to be the only way you'll come close to that price.

http://www.spinnerii.com/index.cfm/div/65/Industrial

Otherwise, the smallest industrial centrifuges, Alfa Laval MAB103 for example, start around $12,000. A filter array can do everything s centrifuge can. The initial cost will be lower with a filter but the operating costs will be higher. If you're not processing a large volume of dirty fuel, your operating cost will not likely offset the initial cost.

 

[gruntguru]

Nuclear fuel?

je suis charlie

 

[Tmoose]

Hi EnginesRUs,

As others said, what fuel, and what are you trying to separate?

If particulates, what fine-ness do you believe you need?

 

[moon161]

This was the jet powered centrifuge I was speaking of,

https://www.dieselcraft.com/products/

 

[enginesrus]

Should be electric powered and for a huge variety of viscosity fuels, from diesel to bunker.

 

[TugboatEng]

Centrifuges typically don't work on a wide range of viscosities. If dealing with viscous fuels such as bunker (an obsolete fuel which is no longer available to purchase) you must use a heater to control viscosity.