Posted on 04/20/2019 6:42:40 AM PDT by Libloather
The heist began with a thief backing a large, white box truck up behind a Virginia mall around 3:30 a.m. one day in early April, according to a search warrant. The man wasn’t looking for cash or electronics, but something stranger: used cooking grease.
He siphoned about 150 gallons of the stinking, viscous liquid from a dumpster behind a Burger King, before a police officer patrolling Annandale Shopping Center busted him, according to the search warrant, filed in Fairfax County.
The crime is not new, but law enforcement officials say thieves are targeting the stuff used to make french fries and fried chicken anew because of a run-up in biodiesel prices in the past couple of years. Cooking grease can be turned into the fuel, creating a surprisingly lucrative black market for a substance most people wouldn’t touch.
(Excerpt) Read more at houmatoday.com ...
Send them our way, we have no one in town who does it and it costs 400 bucks for a clean-out.
Not a chemist or a biologist, but wouldn’t it be, long chain triglycerides?
Probably. I stayed up all night.
CC
With some fairly simple chemical treatment, it can replace diesel on a one-for-one basis. With some modifications to the vehicle (heated tank and lines), it can be used with just filtration. With the latter, you have to start and warm the engine on regular diesel. You can then switch to direct running on the veggie oil.
“That’s gold Jerry. Gold! “ Kenny Banya
10,000 a night ? Nah, a week maybe. Let’s see, they said it was a 125 gallon loss from the restaurant’s tank, using that as the standard , 40 tanks a week, we’ll just round it up to 42 tanks @ 125gallons each = 5,250 .So, 6 tanks a night, 7 days a week @ $2.00 per gallon . 10 K a week sounds doable.
Biodiesel is so “yesterday”.
Hmmm...didn’t consider this one: Since old frying grease is being repurposed into a fuel (and consequently CO2, illicitly or otherwise), AOC must’ve missed adding french fries to her “list”...
Makes that pic of her chief of staff eating a burger even worse from that perspective.
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Yes. Apparently, the market hasn't permeated everywhere. And it is tough to get rid of where no one wants it. Just like old tires. Do I ever wish someone would find a viable enough use that they could be disposed of more easily. Then if thieves come in the night - I really don't care.
Thank you. It was silly of me to post a question before I read the entire article. I posit having been in a pre-coffee state and having left my brain in my other bathrobe. *Sheepishly tiptoes away*
What is Biodiesel?
• A clean, domestic, sustainable, renewable fuel for
diesel engines made from fats and oils, such as
soybean oil and used cooking oil
• A high quality Advanced Biofuel
• Made through a chemical reaction called
transesterification, meeting ASTM D6751 standards
• B20 and lower blends – and even B100 in some
cases – have been used successfully in existing older
diesel engines as well as new models coming off the
production line
https://www.eia.gov/biofuels/biodiesel/production/
Monthly Biodiesel Production Report
“‘You can make $10,000 in a night’: Thieves target used cooking grease”
At $2.50 gallon paid at the recycle center that’s 4000 gallons per night.
The grease starts out as long chain triglycerides. But there’s an easy reaction with methanol or methoxide anion (essentially wood alcohol or its base form), referred to as a transesterification, that converts the grease to long chain methyl esters and glycerine. And the long chain fatty esters are essentially the molecular analog of the compounds found in diesel, but with an oxidized group on the end that doesn’t really matter that much.
Sometimes figuring out what to do with the leftover glycerine is a bit of a problem.
Don’t worry! You are keeping enough for a tradition alive.
Wow, you have two bathrobes?
Grease is the word
is the word
that you heard...
Many places have a “grease trap”. When the grease truck comes to retrieve it, it stinks to high heaven. Some kid worked out how to make diesel fuel in his garage, out of used grease a few years ago.
Yes, I just can’t find the other one at the moment.
That is a great consolation, I think maybe.
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