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"Our faculty are on the forefront of translational research on the biology of cancer and on cancer prevention," said David S. Carlson, Ph.D., TAMHSC vice president for research and dean of the TAMHSC-School of Graduate Studies. "We are especially enthusiastic that the discoveries by our faculty are making their way into the commercialization sector so they can provide a real and discernable impact on prevention and treatment of cancer."
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Also, a $13.6 million CPRIT grant award to Peter Davies, Ph.D., M.D., professor and director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research at TAMHSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology and holder of the Margaret M. Alkek Endowed Chair, has been transferred to the TAMHSC. Dr. Davies received the CPRIT award while at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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(edit- This thread got really long so I posted a summary of my posts to this thread here.
I just ran my first batch of 15 gallons of WVO straight from the restaurant barrel, 100 mesh (149 micron) screen on sucker, through the centrifuge with no other filtering and it works great. Easy to clean, no more filters to buy. Runs at 90psi, 1 gpm. I was surprised since Dana had me scared it wouldn't work from this thread.
Here is my rig, it goes pump>heater>centrifuge>barrel:
The pump is a free power steering pump off a 84 Mitsubishi montero, hooked to an old 1725rpm 3/4 hp motor I had. As small as 1/4 hp should work, this is what I had laying around:
This pump was easy since it had a rubber line going to the reservoir which I just turned upward and attached my inlet hose:
This goes into a 4500w 220v water heater element run at 110v (=1125w) in a tee in the bottom of the 1.25" vertical pipe. The oil started at 50 F and got up to 110 F first pass. I did 3 passes with decreasing amounts filtered each pass, lots in the first pass, with almost no black sludge 3rd pass.
Here is the black gunk that stays in the rotor (edit-better pic):
You guys working on the "holy grail" of mobile flash evaporator and filtering might want to look into this since with a little higher temp it might do both. Or you could do a flash or vacuum evap. then right into this. At 120 F I was seeing small puffs of steam or atomized oil when pumping the hot oil through 2 small orifices at 90psi. This oil was water-free to begin with according to a pan test.
The oil I started with was black and you couldn't see through it at all. And here is the sweet iced tea drinkable looking WVO after only 15 mins for 15 gals:
edit- This is a BLOG of my greasy science project. See further improvements to this rig on later pages, or in the summary link at the top of this page. Many batches of tests have shown a mistwash (which gets mentioned on many pages here) isn't helping and makes dewatering take far longer.
edit - new info:
With any version of this you should make provisions to capture the output of the centrifuge right when you turn it off. The output at that time is often very dirty besides containing up to 4 oz. of water (if there was enough to make free water.)
edit - new info:
Now I have a Sandy Brae water in oil tester, and here are the results from a centrifuge run I did recently. Average quality WVO source, FFA=2.5%, settled for 4 months. Began at 700 PPM and end 270 PPM measured with sandy brae, also measured every 30 minutes with my capacitive water in oil meter (link: Homebrew capacitive water in oil meter testing) to make this chart, and temp. compensated.
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The only problems I had was the little rubber gasket on the hot water heater element 1" MPT couldn't hold the 90 psi, bulged out and sprung a small leak. Anyone have experience sealing those under pressure? The threads don't seal on their own like normal pipe thread. I am guessing an O-ring may work?
One drawback is that it was loud, probably because the metal barrel acts like a resonator. It winds up to 6000rpms very quickly, sounds sort of like a vacuum cleaner.
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sounds like winner thus far...
hopefully you can do some more testing and get back with us.
things like if it will remove water or not... and what happens if you run the oil thru a 1 micron absolute filter.
neat drive set up btw..
Though your argument is very clever, I don't think it will lead to the results you desire. gandhi
Is this the same type of centrifuge used on semis? I hear thay are very expensive. Would it be cool just to dump wvo into a dirty tank and have it go though a centrifuge while on the road? then transfer the clean oil to the clean tank to run your truck on That seems like a better way to go while on long distance driving.
What did it cost And where did you buy it..?
Oh which model did you buy.
Thanks for the report
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Yes this is made for semis. It cost me $230 including shipping on ebay here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...ame=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT
You can probably email the guy and get one, the seller is the maker of them.
In the long run I think the price is worth it since you never need to buy replacement filters.
And it reportedly filters to 0.5 micron which is kind of hard to do with filters.
And yes this would work great while on the road, that is one reason I am trying it out. And you got it, you have a dirty tank and it pumps into the clean tank. In my example I showed just one tank but it can pump from one to another just as easy. I pumped from 5 gallon glass carboys into the 55 gallon drum that the centrifuge is mounted on. You could easily mount it anyway you like.
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You either need a recess for the quad ring to sit in, like it does on a water heater, or you need to improvise a collar around it to keep it in.
I believe the rating on those when in a water heater is something like 160 psi test. My water pressure is 80 psi.
please tell us more! where does the crap go? the oil i get is sort creamy colored. after sitting a couple of weeks the thick stuff goes to the bottom, clear(er) to the top. with the centrifuge there has to be two streams coming out- the good stuff and the bad stuff. it's about 2/3 to 3/4 good stuff.
how much was it? where did you get it?
The crap all gets stuck inside the rotor of the centrifuge, (which is the 2 parts with the black gunk on it you see in my hand, it had a lot more before I ran and got the camera) which is real easy to open up and simply wipe out with a rag.
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It doesn't separate into two streams, it only moves solids to the outside where they can be cleaned off. As SunWizard said "This oil was water-free to begin with according to a pan test" so further testing would be needed to see what would happen with oil like yours. Would be interesting to try. Maybe, if he's willing, you could ship him a cubee to test?
I plan on adding some water to some oil and trying some nasty oil to see what happens. Dana reported that a similar unit would emulsify if there was too much water. Your milkyness is probably partially hydrogenated (PH) which if dewatered will work with this since it gets heated before centrifuged. I think the oil I used was PH and milky too but was so black it was hard to tell.
Here is the makers website with a diagram of how it works: http://www.dieselcraft.com/productinfo_OC_1.html
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This looks very promising. I will try this out in series with a Tim Cook Flash Evaporator, to build the "holy grail" of on-board filtering and dewatering.
Few questions.
1. How easy is it to clean. When you remove the rotor to clean it, can you do so without all the mess on the floor.
2. How much WVO can you clean before you have to clean the rotor. I know somebody will say "It depends", just need your observation on how much gunk was removed in your 15 gallons. Could the rotor have taken more gunk? If so, can you extrapolate loosely how much WVO it would have taken to fill up the rotor with Gunk?
3. Will it work if the flow rate was less than .93 gpm. Since this will be before the FE, the flow rate for mine will only be 5 gph.
1. very easy to clean, you open it, take a nut off the rotor, and wipe inside parts with a rag. It makes a mess on the rag but not much else.
2. I think you could clean lots before the rotor fills. The dirt is really compressed. I could have done hundreds of gallons of the oil I had without cleaning it. But I wanted to clean it often just to see the goop
3. It needs specific flow rates to work. I think the dieselcraft website gives info, but it ranges from .6 to .9 gpm. You would probably want this after most water has been removed. But you may be able to make this do at least part of the dewater too, since it functions similar to the flash evaporator but at a higher flow.
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Sealing the heating element -- I make new gaskets from 1/16 inch thick teflon sheet gasket material, then use a pipe tap and cut the threads in the "T" or coupling so that I can screw the heater in hand-tight and still have 1 to 1.5 threads to go between the fitting and the gasket. Remove the heater and goop both the internal and external threads with silicone putty, being sure to work it completely down into the bottom of both threads. Screw the element in so the new teflon gasket has a bit of pressure on it but not enough to cause it to bulge. Helps to smooth off the end of the fitting with a grinder to create a more flat surface for the gasket. This has worked on several heaters, up to 150 pounds on the flash evaporator.
You mention "2 small orifices", where are these, are they the orifices used to spin the rotor ?
Pump pressure -- You mention "90 pounds", do you have some sort of pressure adjust or is the 90 pounds just what ended up being created from this pump/orifice combination ?
Mate that is really impressive. If tests on the final product stack up I reckon you have cracked the holey grail of oil polishing.
I am still a bit suspicious that the fine stuff, up to 5 microns could still be present in part. The finished product should be crystal clear when hot. Can you put the oil through a couple more times with a clean rotor and verify that there is on fine deposit. Even if there is it may mean a few more passes are required. With the quoted flow rate this would still be ok.
Thanks for the post, very good work.
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Thanks for the sealing tips I will try it. Yes the 2 small orifices are what spins the rotor. I got 90psi by design plus some luck that my junk car's power steering pump was the right size. I will make a new post here about design and operating this rig.
I think it would be very easy and the greatest to combine your flash evaporator with this thing, since the heat and orifice part is so similar.
And Tim the orifices (orifii?) on this look to be standard brass pipe thread which I bet you have a pile you could play with in there for different flows.
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Design and operating this rig:
For the pump, you want a small gear (edit-or vane) pump. I almost bought this Oberdorfer 1000BR gear pump for $80 until I realized that power steering pumps are the right size pumps. Most pumps are too big, you want a small one, this one is about 3"x3"x3" not counting the pulley and reservoir. You also want it to be easy to mount and to seperate the reservoir to input directly to pump. Other models with the same pump I used is Dodge D50 and mitsubishi 2.5L truck from 80-89 and Monteros from 84-89. Test your pump with open flow, it should be about 1.5 gpm. This is the right open flow which will magically drop to about 0.9 gpm at 90psi. If its not the right flow, change the pulley size on the motor. My motor pulley is small so its reducing the slow 1725rpm motor some. Or you could use a variable speed motor if you wanted to be really cool.
Turn on the pump to fill the lines before turning on the heater! I turn it on for just a few seconds, it self primes quick, until the first oil drips from the centrifuge, then shut off. You don't want cold oil going through. Then I turn on the heater element, wait about 1 minute, then start the pump. When you hear it whine you know its working.
Future ideas to test:
This is so close to a flash evaporator already, that I designed it to have a second 4500w heater element at the top T.
Idea #1. put a 3 way valve on just before the centrifuge, run it through a seperate orifice several times into the same barrel until its hot and flash evaporated. Then flip the valve to filter.
Idea #2. About a pint of water may be trapped in the rotor along with the gunk. Try putting a quart jar under the output just when I shut the centrifuge off to see if any water comes out. (edit- see page 12, this idea works,catches about 4 oz., it may be possible to remove sugars/acids without a mistwash if you capture the output at pump shutoff)
Idea #3. Run this thing hot enough to do the flash evap and centrifuge in one pass.
I had 2 heater elements in it at first, when the top one sprung a leak and sprayed a fine column about 30' straight up producing a warm golden shrimp smelling oil shower I took it off until I solve the gasket issue.This message has been edited. Last edited by: SunWizard,
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Since you were able to draw through a 100 micron screen you obviously had pretty good oil to begin with, despite the color. Would be interesting to see how well it works with really gunked up stuff.
You need to collect and condense the vapor you were seeing. I get vapor at times when pumping clean oil through a restriction but it is just atomized lighter oils.
I bet this would be great for polishing settled oil, based on your results. It could just draw from the bottom of the barrel, and return to the top. Let it run several hours, then switch the output through a filter to the final barrel. Should extend filter life considerably, or even indefinitly.
Glad you went ahead and tried this despite the discouragement you received before!
You sure got a deal though. List on these things is over $400. I imagine with demand increased, they won't be as likely to discount them.
Me too.
I hope however that before you get too encouaged by the early result in your testing and proclaim it a success that you proceed with testing of the units ability to remove suspended water. You should also be aware of the need to wash wvo before any evaporative dewatering. I have posted enough on this subject that I don't think I need to repost why this is neccesary. But if I do..just ask.
Edit: If you are just using the unit as a filter it seems to be a very expensive one.
Most filters for VO cost under $50 and filter just as adequately as the DieselCraft Centrifugal filter setup you describe. n fact I beleive I can convert a vehicle and fabricate a WVO collector, prefilter, and dewatering unit for what your Dieselcraft Centrifugal filter processor costs.
It has a Gee Whiz" appeal with all the mechanisms spinning and whirring and vapor drifting...but as a practical matter it isn't anything more than an increadibly expensive WVO prefilter.This message has been edited. Last edited by: danalinscott,
I am very happy with the unit just as a filter, its much easier than the other options I have seen. Thats why I tested that aspect first. The centrifuge doesn't need to do the dewater for me to consider it a sucess, I can do a vacuum or flash evap before this if needed. But doing it all with one is the holy grail! The water removing is the next test.
And yes I know about washing I have been reading your posts about it here for a while. Already have my misting head setup for this same open top barrel.
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Parata's job safe in shuffle Prime Minister John Key says Education Minister Hekia Parata will be safe in an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle, despite her troubles last year, because she is hugely talented and one of National's best communicators.
If Hekia Parata is National's best communicator after the larger classroom fiasco, the Christchurch school closure debacle and the Novopay catastrophe, then the rest of the Party are head injury patients who can barely string syllables together.
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The Colorado bills, which still must go before the Democratic-controlled Senate, require background checks for all gun purchases - paid for by applicants - a ban on ammunition magazines with more than 15 rounds and a measure to allow colleges in the state to ban concealed weapons on campus.
Governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, has said he supported the magazine limits and universal background check measures but was undecided on the college campus ban.
During debate last week, House Republican leader Mark Waller characterized the bills as a "knee-jerk reaction" to the massacres in Connecticut and Aurora.
Besides the Aurora tragedy, Colorado was also the state where, in 1999, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton shot and killed a teacher and 12 students before committing suicide.
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|Towards A New Kind Of Architectural Education!
|by Evan Gross, March 4, 2009
Wake Up Students of Architecture
No School offers you an education. Schools sell tickets for academic competitions in which you must participate in order to defeat of be defeated. In these competitions, the best prepared lead and all others follow. In order to lead, you will need to overcome obstacles behind which lies no certainty, but that of vanity.
Wake up Students of Architecture
No Teacher can educate you! You are on your own to create your own options and select from them. BUT ... Be warned: The restless minds will be the ones to see the truth; the seekers of a type of reality that has not been served on the plate, but can only be obtained through ceaseless explorations. You are unable to discover the truth in the abyss of a system created by minds, which have already sold their once innovative ideals to a corrupt society for worn-out promises.
Do not blame them. Their constructive cycle of life ended the moment they demonstrated obedience to the monster of dishonesty. Afraid of their own shadows, our teachers say "Yes Sir", and repeat patterns of the past; right or wrong. They do not judge, but blindly accept, and single - handedly reject the extremity of any modern thinker's innovative ideas. Ignore these teachers ... poor creatures; unfortunate victims of their own creation, their own monster; "the system". Do not blame them, but do not listen to them either. You might end up being like them one day. But that is when the restless minds will mock you. That is when you will dress up in a shade of gray and pray to your gods for mercy ... just ignore them.
Emotionally shallow and victimized by a standardized education, the technocrat feeds the system and is fed by it. He is happy with how the situation is as it is, and is afraid of infinite possibilities. He cannot conceive of any reason why restless monds strive for perfection. He is the one responsible for the shit we are all in. He is the child of the aforementioned malfunctioning system. He does not create, but only reheats precooked ideas of his trade. He relies on the knowledge he was once served in a tavern called "education". His instinct is what leads him to become a technocrat. A Technocrat = a person who knows how to make a product be durable, but does not care whether it is made for a human or a beast. The Technocrat ignores beauty. He does not care about beauty. All he needs is safety, easiness and vegetarian soup. But remember: beauty is in taking the chance. Beauty is in dreaming of conquering unreachable crests. Ignore him, spit in his face ... walk away. You do not need him. He needs you! Walk Away ...
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Dear Garth McVicar - shut up you homophobic fuckwit!
Oh dear Zombie Jesus, what the bloody hell has Garth McVicar said now? Gay Marriage will raise the crime rate??????????
Lobbyist links gay marriage to crime rise in NZ
Sensible Sentencing Trust leader Garth McVicar has submitted to Parliament that changing the law to allow same-sex marriage will be yet another erosion of basic morals and values in society which have led to an escalation of child abuse, domestic violence, and an ever-increasing prison population.
"The marriage amendment bill will not benefit society at all and will ultimately have detremetal (sic) effect on crime at all levels," the submission read.
Dear Garth McVicar - shut up you homophobic fuckwit!
Gay Marriage and the crime rate are as connected as masturbation is to the abortion statistics! How on earth could a same sex couple who want to publicly pledge their relationship to their friends and whanau ever lead to an increase in crime? How hateful do you honestly have to be to twist gay marriage into evidence that the fabric of society is about to rip apart birthing more child abuse, domestic violence AND a lift in prison populations????
Shouldn't it embarrass NZers that this clown has so much influence over law and order issues? Garth McVicar is a dangerous individual who has used emotion over reason to generate hysteria, anger and fear to warp our debate on punishment into the scream of the lynch mob.
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Unai Garro - Summer 2008
I began this series of tutorials some time ago already, and all of them covered light issues. We used tools like levels, curves, or white balance adjustment.
I wanted to approach other type of issues this time, but I think light issues would be rather incomplete if I didn't address contrast, brightness and colors adjustments. Possibly you are somewhat familiar with these already, but I think they're worth covering.
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More than just a few times, we take a photograph of a gorgeous landscape, and we dream about the cool result we will get once we are at home. Nowadays digital cameras help us previewing the result on the LCD, but usually they are not too trustworthy, so we end up seeing the real results only when we are home.
So we arrive home with our cool photograph, and we find, disgusted, that it doesn't have the colors that we expected from it. What to do? We use Showfoto or Krita again, of course!
Lets see the following photograph as sample:
When I took this photo, my eyes were seeing all sort of strong green colors, and reddish leaves in the ground. But somehow the camera didn't capture all that contrast for me. But what's contrast? It's just the color differences found inside an image, the difference between a pixel/region and the surrounding. The more contrasty the image, the clearer it is to the eye.
This image instead, is whiteish, it's flat, it lacks contrast. Why? because it doesn't cover the whole histogram.
"Ahhhhhh..." you'll say now.... "I know this! I can fix this using! I learned it in the first tutorial!". Yes, and that's what we will try first. Open the image in Showfoto, and adjust the levels:
The result is the following image:
Not bad, is it? But still, I had a different photo in my mind. Leaves were greener, there was more contrast (like darker shadows), and the leaves on the floor were more reddish. So can we fix this? Yes, we could use theto improve shadows for example. But I will show you some new tools that can achieve similar results in this case:
In Showfoto, go to the menu:
You will get a very easy to use dialog with the following controls:
The firstslider controls the brightness/darkness of the image. The second slider increases or reduces , and uhm... what's ? Look at the following image:
The photo and histogram on the left are those of the original image. In the right hand, the three photos show the result of increasing brightness, contrast, and gamma respectively. As you can see, when using the brightness control, it moves the whole histogram to the right. Shadows will dissappear and become light grays. The result isn't very pleasing, as it is less contrasty. This could be fixed by adjusting contrast. In theoutput, you can see that the histogram has been expanded. This means that each color has been separated further from each other, and thus increase color difference (contrast). The output is much more pleasing than the original image in this case. The image is no more flat, it's much more contrasty, and shadows are clear dark contrasted.
At this point you should have noticed something important. Both contrast and brightness controls can clip the histogram and cause information loss!' Now look at the gamma adjustment. I pushedeven further than the first tool, and still, the image wasn't clipped. What did the gamma tool do?
Thecontrol is like adjusting the curves tool upwards in the middle (see the figure). It affects mostly to the middle gray levels. Blacks will remain black and whites will remain white. (unlike control where blacks become gray). It compresses the histogram in the right part by compressing highlights, but shadows are expanded and thus causes to extend contrast there.
Given that this tool can clip the histogram, to avoid it as much as I can, I will change the order. Instead of doingthen , I will do then . It's usually best adjusting levels after all other light adjustments have been done. So I did the following adjustment to the image:
I could have pushed contrast even further, but I prefer natural looking photos. Then, afterwards, even if it wasn't much needed due to the clipping, I adjusted levels a bit. This is what I got:
The result is similar to the previous one, but a bit more contrasty. Still, I'm missing colors here, something is missing? Of course, lets open theoption from the menu:
It will open a dialog where Showfoto permits adjusting the colors of the image. Thecontrol can make colors stronger or weaker. The control permits altering colors towards another one (brighter colors to darker green, or even to yellow...), and finally, can make colors brighter or darker. When the image is lightened up, it causes moving the histogram's dark part upwards and compressing the whole of it on the right, thus blacks dissappear and contrast can be reduced easily thanks to the compression.
In my adjustment, I pushed saturation up to 34, reduced lightness a bit, and retouched the greens by altering the hue slightly. This is what I got finally:
Now yes, I'm happy with the result. That's what my eyes saw!!!!!
Thanks for reading this tutorial and I hope you found it useful. Cya on the next tutorial!
|1) Please note that it's very easy to get addicted to tools like saturation control and go too far adjusting them (we call it overdoing /overprocessing). We want more colors, more saturated colors... but we end up with a picture that looks very unnatural and clearly shows procesing was done. My suggestion is you limit yourself to showing what your eyes or your mind saw in the scene without overdoing the photo.
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Scorer of the winning goal in the final she may have been, but that strike merely capped Alba Pomares's two dynamic performances at the 2011 UEFA European Women's Under-17 Championship finals.
Pomares certainly stood out for her moment of brilliance in the competition's deciding match when, with virtually the last kick of the final, she unleashed a dipping strike over Solène Durand from the edge of the area. But that winning goal was merely the icing on the cake for a 15-year-old who gave outstanding contributions in both the final and the semi-final.
In the 4-0 victory against Iceland she created all three of Spain's goals from open play and remained menacingly enterprising from the first minute until the last, with her dribbling, pass selection and willingness to shoot.
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"Electric vehicles of today are less costly than in 1990s, but if you compare them with the other vehicles out there they are still too expensive," Toyota Exec VP Takeshi Uchiyamada told a crowd at the Frankfurt Motor Show. "Unless there is a very big breakthrough in battery costs I don't think electric vehicles can take a large market share."
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