Get Ready for a Biodiesel Weekend

Get Ready for a Biodiesel Weekend

Girl Mark is in town this week and will be teach two biodiesel homebrew classes in Ft. Lauderdale. In the biodiesel community, Girl Mark is a celebrity. She even written a book, Biodiesel Homebrew Guide.

You have an option of one of two courses, a short 1-day course this Friday, December 1 from 10 am - 4 pm, or a comprehensive 2-day course this weekend, Dec 2-3 (also from 10 am - 4 pm).

Here's what she told me about the courses:

Learn to make your own high-quality biodiesel fuel from waste restaurant fryer oil, and build the equipment to do so at home.

In the two-day weekend class, we'll cover the basic process, safety, the chemistry of quality control, quality testing, fixing emulsions made in washing, dealing with bad quality/high free fatty acid oil, dewatering oil and biodiesel, ethanol biodiesel, disposing of wash water and glycerine, and techniques to improve your process (glycerine remix prewash, two-stage production). If you have already experimented with making biodiesel, we'll cover a lot of troubleshooting and problem-repairing techniques.

The Friday class is a shorter version of the two-day class and will include less hands-on time and may skip a few the advanced topics, for those who can't attend a weekend class.

At the very end of the two-day class, we'll also build some processors similar to the Appleseed processor.

Sign up for the classes here: 1 day $60 (Friday, Dec 1), 2 days $120 (Saturday-Sunday, Dec 2-3). They are located in Ft. Lauderdale right off of I-95 on Stirling Rd. When you register you will receive an email with the exact location, suggested reading materials, and even what to wear.

Still not sure? Read what some past class participants have to say. You can see more about Girl Mark and Biodiesel at GirlMark.com and BiodieselCommunity.org.