Written by Rickdatech

The dirty little secret of homebrew is that making biodiesel generates hazardous waste. Dealing with it properly is one of the most often ignored responsibilies we have.

 Wash Water Disposal

Responsibly dealing with spent wash water is not as hard as you might think.

Wash Water Treatment and Disposal We can pour our wash water on the ground and kill the grass and polute our streams or we can pour it down the drain and overload our sewage treatment plants. There is an alternative, we can treat our spent wash water and make it harmless with very little effort. Read More...

Productive Uses for Glycerin

The worst thing you can do is to horde glycerin. It is a fire hazard and there are just too many ways of turning this hazardous waste stream into a valuable co product.

Anaerobic Digestion One way to turn a waste stream into a valuable energy product is to feed waste glycerin and spent washwater into an anaerobic digester. You can find a big digester at a sewage treatment plant or dairy farm or you can build your own personal digester. This is one of the few ways to dispose of glycerin that does not call for methanol recovery. Read More...

Methanol Recovery Methanol is a major component of raw glycerin. The average homebrewer can cut his total cost by a third by distilling the methanol out of raw glycerin. Read More...

Making Soap from Biodiesel Glycerin One way to turn waste glycerin into a value add is to turn it into soap. In this article, Rick Knicely of Knice-N-Clean Soap Company discusses his way of making biodiesel glycerin soap. Read More...

Feeding glycerin to Ruminants Here is a list of web resources on feeding glycerin to cattle. Read More...