Cost to make homebrew biodiesel

[portert0224]

Presuming you have already broken even with start up cost, has anyone
calculated their cost per gallon to make biodiesel?
Thanks,
Tracy

[Greg Ericksen]

Assuming that the WVO is free, and that methanol is somewhere around
$3/gallon, depending on your source of NaOH/Lye or KOH, I figured it
out to be between 70 and 90 cents per gallon. This is purely based on
the amount of methanol and KOH that is used per gallon of resulting
Biodiesel.

If you buy Lye at the hardware store, you will be towards the high end
of that range, if you get a 50 pound bag of KOH from a chemical
supplier, you will be on the low end.

Good luck,
Greg

[Herb]

Greg where did/do you buy your methonol? When?
Herb

[Greg Ericksen]

I bought a 30 gallon drum from Performance Dynamics in Mechanicsville
that Friday, the day before you came over. I think that was the 5th? I
forget the total, but its about $3/gallon. They get their methanol
from Dominion Chemical in P'burg.